How this is gonna work...

So I've already told you that I am looking to see if Christianity is for me, now it's time for me to share my plan for how I'm gonna go about finding that out. If you don't care for a long and probably boring post on how I'm going to be figuring out my faith then this probably isn't for you, please feel free to go and try one of my other posts.

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Devoting

The very first step is going to be devoting my life to this, to God, because I believe to live it out is the only way that I am going to learn. Deciding that it's not for me without living it out would be like me saying that I hate swimming without ever getting in the pool, makes no sense right? Can't learn to swim if you don't get in the water, also can't learn to swim by just dipping your toes in. If I continue doing what I have been doing on this journey for the last three years (sitting at the edge of the pool just dipping my toes in) I'm never going to know what it truly means to be a Christian, if I don't know what it means to be a Christian how will I know if its right for me?

Learning

The next step is learning, you cannot make a good judgement on something until you have all the facts. So the first thing I am going to be doing is in-depth studying the bible, I know that'll take a while (probably years) but I'm in this for the long run; only studying half and giving up would be like signing up for the London marathon and only training to go thirteen miles... I'm going to be using online resources alongside resources from my local church and my local library. By this time next year I am hoping to have a better understanding of the Bible; who wrote it, where it was written, the times it was written, what life was like then and how that could have influenced the word and how discrepancies in translation could lead to things being misinterpreted to name a few.

Prayer

I am going to be praying for help as I try to find my faith in the Lord, I would like a personal relationship with God and to be able to hear him when he guides me. Again I am going to be using many sources of information to study prayer and how I can do it in a way that pleases the Lord; however my own personal belief on prayer is that it is an intimate and personal thing between you and God and that while a little guidance never hurt I think that my prayer life with the Lord will be decided between me and Him. One thing that I will definitely be doing is asking him for his guidance and for his will to be done in all of this.

Community

I'm going to be connecting with other Christians both in my own community and online. I honestly believe that this will be easier online for me. I have severe social anxiety so talking to people in person is very difficult for me having a community of Christians to talk with, mentor me and help me would be ideal; but I am well aware that the Lord doesn't call for what is easy so I will also be making connections in my own community too (even if the progress is slow, I will make it eventually.) To get me started I am going to be reaching out to a few online Christian influences whom I have been following for a while to ask for their advice and then I shall continue the plan from there

Questions

I am going to be asking questions of people both in and out of the faith. I have many questions for Christians I also have many questions for non-Christians; I will be asking some in the public setting of this blog and others in private messages. I cannot wait to be able to find out peoples opinions and belief because I know that even within the same religion, reading the same holy book people can interpret it very differently and knowing many different interpretations could help me to figure out what my own is.

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I am going to be checking back in with a post like this in around three to four months, It'll be an update on how I am feeling about Christianity in general, how I have got on with all of the points mentioned above, and what my next steps will be in searching for my faith. I just wanna give a quick thank you to anyone reading and if you can think of anything else you think I should be doing to advance my understanding of the Christian faith please let me know.