Next Steps

At New Day Church we end each message with “Next Steps”, several specific things people can begin doing to apply the message to their lives. Why do we do this?

Jesus said in Matthew 7:24-27, Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

Jesus’ brother basically says the same thing in James 1:22 warning us to not just listen to God’s Word, but instead to go one step further by putting it into practice.

We develop Christlikeness as we learn AND APPLY God’s Word to our every day lives. We do not grow spiritually by increasing our KNOWLEDGE of God’s Word, but by increasing the parts of God’s Word that we PUT INTO PRACTICE in our lives.

By giving “Next Steps” we make it that much easier to honor what Jesus said in Matthew 7 and what James reiterates in James 1.