Introduction The Encyclopedia of Practical Christianity is a chronicle of what was taught at New Life Bible Church for nearly twenty years and then at Faith Community Church. When New Life Bible Church was first established” it was decided that if we failed to plan what we were going to do as a church, we were actually planning to fail. Instead of aimlessly wandering around in our study of the Scriptures, we decided to develop a comprehensive plan that would give us the scope of the biblical topics