12 Steps
September 23, 2019 by Tom
At church this week, we’re starting a new series titled “The Way”. Much of the series follows the twelve
steps. Yes…those same twelve steps from AA you’ve heard about. Come to find out, those same 12 steps don’t just work
for booze…they work for pretty much anything in life.
We all are addicted to something. What are you addicted to. Follow the steps…it works for millions. It can work for
you too, if you’ll surrender.
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying
only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and
to practice these principles in all our affairs.
It works!