You don’t have to wait until you’ve read through the whole Bible before you can start serving the Lord and sharing your faith. After the apostle Paul was saved, he immediately began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues (Acts 9:20). God will give you the strength and courage you need and the words to say. Just share what Jesus has done for you from your heart. Ask the Lord how he can use you for His honor and glory.

”Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”  (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” (Colossians 4:2)

“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”  (James 5:16)

“One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.”  (Luke 6:12)

(Romans 8:26; Ephesians 6:18; Hebrews 4:14-16;  2 Chronicles 7:14; Philippians 4:6-8; Matthew 6:5-13, 15:36; Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16, 11:1-13)

Read the Bible and memorize God’s Word as much as possible. If you don’t have a Bible or can’t find one, print parts of the Bible from the internet. If you are really pressed for time, start by reading Luke (birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus), Acts (the beginning of the church and persecution of believers), Romans (salvation by faith), Genesis (how it all began), Revelation (how it all ends) and Psalms (provides comfort and strength). If you are not pressed for time, read the above books of the Bible and then go back and read the rest of the New Testament from the beginning and then the rest of the Old Testament. There is no substitute for the Word of God. As a believer, the Holy Spirit will help you to understand what you are reading, how you can apply Scripture to your life and discern what God wants you to do.  (Deuteronomy 6:4-8, 17:19; John 8:31-32; Isaiah 55:11;  1 Peter 3:15)

“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”  (Psalm 119:105)

“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)

“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”  (Psalm 119:11)

“I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.”  (Job 23:12)

“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.”  (Psalm 1:1-3)

“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.”  (Colossians 3:16)

Find a Bible believing church and be baptized as a public display of your faith. The church will equip you to serve the Lord. Join a small group and grow in the Lord as you pray, worship and fellowship with other believers.

Find other believers so you can pray, worship, grow, serve and fellowship together. Find a home church or start a home church and be baptized as a public display of your faith. All the Biblically sound churches will be empty (or close to it) and persecution against Christians may prevent you from meeting in a church building. Your home church will help equip you to be effective for the Lord.

“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”  (Hebrews 10:25)

“So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”  (Ephesians 4:11-13)

“Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”  (Act 2:41-42)

Share the good news about Jesus Christ with your family and friends and as many others as you can.

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”  (Matthew 28:19-20)

“This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”  (Luke 24:46-48)

“Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”  (Matthew 9:37-38)

“Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.”  (Acts 5:42)