I honestly feel that a new Christian should begin with the reading of the New Testament. I think that it should be understood before anything else happens. Out of that, should be a reading of the Old Testament, I honestly don't think that I could have kept reading the Old Testament had I not piqued my interest from the New. I can appreciate alot of the prophesying found in the OT now, and I can see where God has come in his Training of us. It gives me a better perspective on the New Covenant that we are under now, and how good we have it having a new relationship with God through Jesus. Our sins no longer have to be atoned through death, be it our own, or that of an animal, we have Grace, and learning that in the NT, it gets reinforced through the OT.