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I want to know god.
My family never goes to church. I mean literally, I don't know anything about God. I believe in God, but I don't know anything about him. I feel like my life would be better if I had the Lord in my life. I need to know what would be some ways to start getting him in my life. I started reading the bible, but I'm not sure if I should start in the old testament or the new one. I just need help getting started with God. I'm 17 by the way.
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I think its a good thing you decided to do. I think you should try and get involved in a youth group and bible study group. Do know this about God he loves you and gave his son for our sins.his spirit will guide you. let him into your life. try and get into a support group in your church. I hope this helps
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First of all, as a christian myself, I want to say I'm glad to hear that you believe in God & want to recieve the Lord in your life. :) My best advice to getting started would be to definitely start off with the old testament and to work your way up to the new testament. As far as stepping outside reading if you can't attend a regular church I know that theres alot of really good televangelist's on TV out there that are great to listen to (especially Joel Osteen & Charles Stanley) on sundays and even some days of the week. Have you heard of asking God into your life to with the sinners prayer too? You don't even have to make it a long prayer, you can just start off with
Dear God,
I now confess to You all of the wrong and sinful things that I have ever done in my life. I ask that You please forgive me and wash away all of my sins by the blood that You have personally shed for me on the cross. I am now ready to accept You as my personal Lord and Savior. I now ask that You come into my life and live with me for all of eternity.
I hope this helps!~ :)
God Bless
Plutotdistraite
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Well, I think some people may take this as being wrong, but I've attended church every single week since I was born and I've never picked up the bible and read it unless I was told to do so. Now I'm not saying you won't learn anything from it because most people do, I think, but everything I know, I know from attending church and even though you think you may need to know something about the religion before you go, I don't think you do because any preaching which is done, is usually specific to a particular text which will have been read at some point during the service. So I think its definately worth contacting those at a local church and checking its okay to attend a service and simply turn up because you will learn.
If however its not possible to go and you're just going to read the bible, then I would say this. The best thing about the bible is that you can pretty much open it up at a random page, read a particular passage and take a message from it. So if you like you can read it in the order it was written but my point is read whichever way you want to read , its not essential to read one book before the other. Although if picking random sections of the new testament, make sure you're familiar with the main charcters and basic storyline before you do that, but literally you only need to know the basics, otherwise it might not make sense.
Hope this helped
Mike!
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As far as the bible, start with old testament, which will help you with the beginning, and then go into the new testament. If you have any friends or family members who go to church, ask to go with them and they will help you, as well as the people at church. =) Also, if your parents will let you, pick a church and go to it and see what you think. You may find that you don't believe in that person's religion, depending upon how you feel after you begin reading the bible and so on, but it's a good start friend. And praying is good way to begin also, even if just once a day, it is always good to do. =) Best of luck to you friend, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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Seriously I know exactaly what you mean, Im in the exact situation as you. I went out to the bookstore and bought the Children's Bible. I know it sounds stupid because its for Children, but trust me, it will help you so much, it explains everything, and has some pictures, and is easily read. You can read it as many times as you want to.
Good luck!!!
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