Introduction
Once a person becomes a Christian they are, as Jesus says, “born again” (In the Bible, see the book of John, chapter 3, verses 1 to 8)
After this, the new Christian will change and grow – sometimes dramatically; sometimes more slowly, but they will grow. God expects us to grow, and He will teach us and give us His Holy Spirit to enable us to grow by the power, wisdom and instruction of His Word (the Bible) and His Holy Spirit.
Growing plants produce “fruit” – leaves, flowers, seeds, or other fruit such as apples, pears. This is what we expect. And God expects us to grow too, and produce the fruit of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (see Galatians, chapter 5, verses 22 to 26) and the fruit of obedience to Him, and a productive Christian life.
In order to grow in our Christian lives, we need to learn what God teaches through the Bible, and also how to hear what God is saying to us through His Spirit.
Life Training School simply seeks to help Christians grow, by teaching Christians what God has to say to us in the Bible, and by His Spirit.
This program consists of an introductory series of Bible studies. There are also further Bible study books online, and some are available in printed form. See the Bible Study books tab, above.
There is no charge for any of this. You do not have to enrol, or even give us your name or email address!
If you would like to contact us about matters relating to the Life Training School you can do so by emailing us at ifnz@xtra.co.nz
I also run Pray for the Nation (also known as Intercessors for New Zealand). If you are interested, its website is:
https://www.pray-for-the-nation.org
Brian Caughley
for Life Training School
- Click the Good News tab and read the two articles: What Next? and Ever Been Cheated? These two articles do not end with questions, but if you wish to respond to them in any way, please email Life Training School
- Go through the six Life Principles lessons, and at the end of each lesson, answer the questions. If you wish, you can email your answers to us, as above. NOTE: The answers to each question need only be a sentence or two. You may either email each Lesson as you complete it, or email all your answers together, after you have completed all six Lessons. There is no need to respond to us if you do not wish to - the choice is yours!
- The next 3 tabs contain material on James' Letter to the early Christians (the Book of James), The Basics of the Christian Life, and where further Bible Study books can be obtained, free of charge.
Why Reply?
For most people, it is a big help to commit themselves to a course of study and to know that they are not only reading the material but thinking about it, answering the questions, and have someone to comment on those answers. Doing these Lessons regularly, and receiving feed-back, are big incentives to continuing with the Lessons. By ourselves, we easily give up, but with someone else's encouragement we are much more likely to continue! The choice is yours!
PLEASE NOTE: Some of the pages or links are to text which has been saved in .pdf format, and this requires Adobe Reader in order to read the pages. If you do not already have Adobe Reader on your computer, you can download this software, free of charge, by going to: www.get.adobe.com/reader/ and clicking Download Acrobat Reader. This will then allow you to read the .pdf files on your computer.
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The following tabs take you to the following ...
Good News - Lessons on thinking about here and now; and about our future - then and where?
Life Principles - Lessons from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5, 6 and 7)
James' Letter - Lessons from James' Letter to Christians, about how we should live.
The Basics - Lessons on important aspects of daily Christian living: Now I'm a Christian - What Next?
Bible Study books - Further Lessons, in booklet form and/or online, which are available to you free.