Stepping Into New Life With Jesus

By R Richard Tribble, Jr

Stepping Into New Life With Jesus is designed to provide new and old believers with a seven step plan based entirely on God’s Word that will help them walk successfully with God day-by-day.

The contents include the Introduction followed by 7 chapters: 1) Taking Your First Steps; 2) Increasing YOUR Fellowship and Followship with Jesus; 3) YOU are What YOU Eat so Feast Daily upon God’s Manna; 4) Filling YOUR Place in the Local Church; 5) Letting YOUR Light Shine in the Darkness; 6) Demonstrating Your Trust in God; and 7) Climbing to New Heights with Jesus Daily.

Its a must have for every new believer in Christ and will be beneficial for older Christians too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R Richard Tribble, Jr
• Release date: Sep 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310154423

R Richard Tribble, Jr

was born in Springfield, Illinois, and educated in the United States and Europe earning the following degrees:Associate of Science in Human Relations from the University of New York;Bachelor of Arts in Human Behavior from Newport University;Master of Arts in Religion from Newport University; andDoctorate of Theology from Christian Bible College(based in large part on work completed at the International Bible College andSeminary, Rucschlicon, Switzerland.In addition he has pursued post doctoral studies at the University of Darmstadt(Germany), the International Bible College and Seminary, Rucschlicon, Switzerland, and the University of Illinois at Springfield, IL.He married to his childhood sweetheart (Dot) and they have been married for almost 48 years.Dr. Tribble's experiences are varied:Parliamentarian. He began studying Robert's Rules of Order in 1962 as a high school sophomore and served as a parliamentarian through out his military and ministerial service. He has been a practicing as a professional parliamentarian in 1974 and in 2013 he was certified as a Professional Registered Parliamentarian (the highest certification granted by the National Association of Parliamentarians).Military Service. He retired from the US Army after more than 20 years of active service (having served three combat tours in Viet Nam).Ordained Minister. He pastored churches in Europe and the US and assisted churches in the Middle East, Turkey, Egypt, Sierra Leone, and Jamaica for more than 40 years.Educator. He was an adjunct professor with City Colleges of Chicago, European Division for 2 years.Corporate Executive. He served as President of Lightning Broadcasting Company for 5 years prior to selling his interest.Author. Over the years he has written numerous magazine articles on church growth; wrote and published 11 books for the US Army, self-published over 43 books on Abraham Lincoln and Christian related subjects and Robert's Rules of Order.Small Business Owner. He retired from the active pastorate in 2014 and is serving as the President of DORICO Ministries focusing on "Making Robert's Rules of Order Understandable" for local churches and not-for-profit organizations specializing in bylaw review and revision, serving as organizational parliamentarian, and providing instruction in Robert's Rules.

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Stepping into New Life with Jesus

by

Dr. R. Richard Tribble, Jr., Th.D., PP(RP)

Copyright 2014

Dr. R. Richard Tribble, Jr., Th.D., PP(RP)

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Preface

The purpose of this book is to provide new believers with a seven step plan from God’s Word that will help them walk successfully with God day-by-day.

While I am a Baptist by faith I am not trying to convert anyone to the church I attend, I am however desirous to convert those who have not received Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior to Him.

It is my hope and prayer that God will use this book to help you walk with Jesus growing in your knowledge of Him and His way. What I’ve attempted to share with you is based solely on the Word of God and not a church’s philosophy. That is why it is loaded with God’s Word - that is what is important for our walk with Him.

May God richly bless you.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Taking YOUR First Steps

Chapter 2: Increasing YOUR Fellowship and Followship with Jesus

Chapter 3: YOU are What YOU Eat so Feast Daily upon God’s Manna

Chapter 4: Filling YOUR Place in the Local Church

Chapter 5: Letting YOUR Light Shine in the Darkness

Chapter 6: Demonstrating Your Trust in God

Chapter 7: Climbing to New Heights with Jesus Daily

About the Author

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Stepping into New Life with Jesus.

When you received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior you were born again (John 3:3) and are now a new creation in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) and you are the recipient of God’s gift of eternal life (Romans 6:23). A lot has happened and will continue to happen as you become all God desires you to become. The journey of life has just begun and Jesus said that He came so that we might have life in great abundance (John 10:10).

As we step into this new life with Jesus let’s consider where we came from and how we got to this point in our new life.

When a person receives Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior he steps from death into life. How can this be? As a natural man we were walking and talking; we were busy with all kind of activities; isn’t that life? Not according to God.

You see the Bible informs us that life is in God and everything that is separated from God is dead. Because man is in sin; because man is a sinner and rebel against God he is dead; he is separated from God. To the natural mind this just doesn’t make sense; it is against everything he sees and feels and knows, yet God tells us that all man’s wisdom is foolishness (1 Corinthians 3:19).

Jesus offers to man ‘new life’; He brings man into a living relationship with God through the new birth and in that we are truly alive. Jesus illustrated this for us in His conversation with a religious leader of His day in John chapter 3.

When Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader came to Him, He told him, Ye must be born again… (John 3:3, 7). This birth is not a physical birth, it is a spiritual birth and as such it manifests itself for all to see.

Through this new birth we become the children of God (John 1:12) and a heir to all that is God’s (Galatians 4:7). Specifically, when one is born again they are made into a new creation of God (2 Corinthians 5:17), the old life, the old man is dead and they are alive. As a new creation in Jesus Christ our lives are to be different (Colossians 1:10) because we are now followers of God the Son who has saved us from the penalty of sin (Ephesians 5:1) and given to everyone that believes in Him God’s gift of eternal life (Romans 6:23).

In this new life we are to live differently by doing good to others (Ephesians 2:10) and introducing the unsaved to Jesus Christ so they may receive new life (Matthew 29:19 and 20).

Perhaps you are reading this book and have never personally received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, or you have already done this and are stepping out into new life with Jesus, but ether way it is important that we consider what is involved in a person coming to Jesus Christ and experiencing His salvation from the penalty of sin. To do this I want to use just the first three letters of the English alphabet. It is often referred to as the ABC plan of salvation.

We begin with the letter A which stands for ‘Admit’ or ‘Agree with God’. What precisely do we need to admit or agree with God?

First, we need to agree with God that everyone is a sinner and admit that you are a sinner, just as I am and everyone else is. Romans 3:10 tells us: … There is none righteous, no, not one… That’s pretty clear. No one is good enough to stand in the presence of a Holy God. Because of sin we are filthy. The Old Testament prophet Isaiah said it this way: But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; …. (Isaiah 64:6).

When I think of filthy