The 12 Steps For Christians

Step 1. ADMISSION

We admitted that we are powerless over sin2 - that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step 2. BELIEF

We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to wholeness.

Step 3. SUBMISSION

We made a decision to turn our life and will over to the care of God, as we understood Him.

Step 4. MORAL INVENTORY

We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step 5. CONFESSION

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 6. We became entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Step 7. PRAYER

We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

Step 8. PERSONAL INVENTORY

We made a list of all the people we had hurt, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step 9. AMENDS.

We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.

Step 10. PERSONAL GROWTH

We continued to take personal inventory and promptly admitted our mistakes when we were wrong.

Step 11. SPIRITUAL GROWTH

We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will and the strength to carry it out.

Step 12. SERVICE TO OTHERS

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.

Thanks Dr. Gerald May