Jesus and the 12 Steps
First Step
“We admit that we are powerless in the face of difficulty, that our lives have become unmanageable.” Humility and Obedience.
Second Step
“We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
Third Step.
“We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.”
Fourth Step
" Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
Fifth Step
"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
Sixth Step
" We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character".
Seventh STEP
"Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
EIGHT STEP
"Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all".
NINETH STEP
"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."
TENTH STEP
"Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."
ELEVENTH STEP
"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."
TWELFTH STEP
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these"