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Patriot: Steps For Recovery
Teaching The AA Steps For Recovery With The Bible
Patriot students having been equipped for ministry and in the Word
of God can easily teach the 12 steps directly from the Bible. Praise
God. Some critics contend that the 12 steps have removed the acknowledgement
of Holy God in their restoration and healing. But have you seen
the Biblical references of each step? If you find yourself involved
with a recovery program, please take note of God’s 12 steps.
STEP 1 - We admitted we were powerless over alcohol
-- that our lives had become unmanageable. (Romans 7:18) For I know
that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for the
will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I
find not.
STEP 2 - Came to believe that a power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity. (Philippians 2:13) You must
work out your own salvation in fear and trembling; for it is God
who works in you, inspiring both the will and the deed, for His
own chosen purpose. I find not.
STEP 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our
lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. (Romans 12:1)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
STEP 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves. (Lamentations 3:40) Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to the LORD.
STEP 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs. (James 5:16a) Confess
your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may
be healed.
STEP 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character. (James 4:10) Humble yourselves in the
sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
STEP 7 - Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.
(1 John 1:9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
STEP 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed
and became willing to make amends to them all. (Luke 6:31) And as
ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
STEP 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. (Matthew
5:23-24) Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there
remember that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy
gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy
brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
STEP 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and
when we were wrong promptly admitted it. (1 Corinthians 10:12) Wherefore
let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
STEP 11 - Sought though prayer and meditation to improve
our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only
for the knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that
out. (Colossians 3:16a) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
in all wisdom;
STEP 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as a result
of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to
practice these principles in all our affairs. (Galatians 6:1) Brethren,
if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore
such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest
thou also be tempted.
Patriot students having been equipped for ministry
and in the Word of God can easily teach the 12 steps directly from
the Bible. Praise God.
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