What should I do if I want to become a Christian?

Philippa Cook offers practical advice to those who have decided they want to follow Jesus.

I grew up in a Christian family. My mum always said that I was a Christian before I was born, as I always used to kick in-utero during the singing at church while she was pregnant with me (although I suppose we will never know if that was just a protest to yet another rendition of Shine Jesus Shine).

When I was seven, I first experienced the power of prayer at Spring Harvest when an accident on the site at Pontins meant all the electricity went out, and my friends and I prayed hard at the top of the slide in the playground. We didn’t want to miss out on the five days of Duggee Dug Dug that lay ahead (I promise that’s the last nineties Christian reference.) The lights came back on, our holiday was saved, and that first experience of the power of God left me asking the question: "What shall I do now?"