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1. • • This step expresses a fundamental principle in our relationship with God that is expressed in numerous scriptural passages, including: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6).
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   What is a 12th step?

   • In A.A. parlance, “twelfth-stepping” is witnessing, almost always by giving a personal testimony. In the early days, A.A. members paid calls on the alcoholic wards of local hospitals, looking for the worst drunks they could find. They would tell their stories, and if interest was aroused, go on to explain the 12 Steps.

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   Are the 12 steps Christian?

   • The 12 Steps are Christian, but A.A. is not. Under Sam Shoemaker’s leadership, these 12 Steps would have created a Christian group; under Bill Wilson’s they made a group that has a wider appeal, for it takes on the pluralistic religious coloration of our culture.

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   Why do churches use the twelve step recovery program?

   • Many churches have adopted and regularly use the twelve-step recovery program. Their reason for using it is the notion that the steps were originally part of the church and the world incorporated them into programs like Alcoholics Anonymous. Watch the Message This is simply not true.

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   What are the spiritual roots of the 12 steps?

   • The spiritual roots of the 12 Steps are complex, tangled between experience-oriented evangelical Christianity and secularizing, psychologizing tendencies of American religious pluralism. Understanding how these sources produced the 12 Steps can help Christians know how to interact with them today.

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   What are the 8 principles & 12 steps?

   • By applying the biblical principles of conviction, conversion, surrender, confession, restitution, prayer, quiet time, witnessing, and helping one another, which are found within the Eight Principles and the Christ-centered 12 Steps, you will restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God.

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   Is the Twelve Steps movement a religion?

   • The propagation of the twelve steps is prioritized above that of the great commission (Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15). If this doesn’t make the movement a religion, it at least mimics one very closely. “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps.”

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   Nov 9, 2023 · The 12 Steps are outlined in the New Testament. The difference in “Taking the 12 Steps” and simply an “act of professing one’s faith” is: one has to do with “verifiable actions” and the other has to do with the brain and the lips.

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   Jesus tells of Peter's denial, and adds an interesting admonition in verse 32. Jesus tells Peter to strengthen his brothers when he turns back to the Lord. This is very consistent with what we try to do in the 12th step.

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   • We admitted we were powerless over alcohol (other addiction, sin, or bondage) that our lives had become unmanageable. Yes, it is true that a person can, after experimenting with something, come under its control and be powerless over it.
   • We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. This has truth in it as well. The key is, what is the power source we are looking to?
   • We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. There are a number of problems with this statement: God cannot be reduced to our understanding.
   • We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Making a moral inventory of ourselves and our behavior is always good. Paul challenged, “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith.

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   • We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors. That our lives had become unmanageable. (Romans 7:18 “I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.
   • Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (Philippians 2:13 “For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.”)
   • Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. (Romans 12:1 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship.”)
   • Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. (Lamentations 3:40 “let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.”)

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   The Bible and the 12 Steps Historians have traced the genesis of the 12 step programs in Alcoholics Anonymous back to the Oxford Group, an evangelistic movement from the early 1900s.

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   Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. (Romans 12:1) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

10. www.christianitytoday.com › 1991 › 07The Big Book And The 12 Steps - Christianity Today

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    Jul 22, 1991 · Alcoholics treasure it and are apt to quote it like the Bible, using page number instead of chapter and verse. At its core are the 12 Steps, which are usually displayed prominently at A.A....