I’m not 100 percent sure about this, but I would like to suggest that one of the hardest things about becoming a Christian later in life is that a full-grown adult has lost the ability to take baby steps. More likely, we may come striding in determined to learn everything we can and “catch up” to our Christian brothers and sisters.

I started by trying to read the Bible all the way through. I sailed through Genesis and Exodus.There’s a pretty wonderful storyline there, and I surprised myself with how much I already knew. Then I hit Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, and there was very little there that made me feel at home. At times, I felt like I was reading about an entirely different world of rules and rituals that left me, well, “baffled” would be the nicest way to say it. The baby hit the wall, and it wouldn’t be the first time. Reading through the entire Bible wasn’t going to be the best way for me to find the God my heart was seeking.

Before you think that I am against someone beginning in this way, let me say that I know at least two Christians who told me reading through the entire Bible was exactly what they needed. That doesn’t really surprise me. God reaches each of His children in the way that works for them, so I am not saying you should discount this approach or any other, as long as you feel God is leading you.