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TWELVE STEPS FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING
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1. We admit our need for God's gift of salvation, that we are powerless over certain areas of our lives, and that our lives are at times sinful and unmanageable.
2. We come to believe through the Holy Spirit that a power who came in the person of Jesus Christ and who is greater than ourselves, can transform our weakness into strengths.
3.We make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Jesus Christ as we understand Him - hoping to understand Him more fully.
4. We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves - both our strengths and weaknesses.
5. We admit to Christ, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our sins.
6. We become entirely ready to have Christ heal all these defects of character that prevent us from having a more spiritual lifestyle.
7. We humbly ask Christ to transform all our shortcomings.
8. We make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
9. We make direct amends to such persons wherever possible, except when to do so would injure others.
10.We continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, promptly admit it and when we are right, thank God for the guidance.
11.We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Jesus Christ, as we are able to understand Him, praying for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
12.Having experienced a new sense of spirituality as a result of these steps and realizing that this is a gift of God's grace, we are willing to share this message of Christ's love and forgiveness with others and to practice these principles for spiritual living in all our affairs.
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