You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. ~ John 8:32
A Christian scriptural based process for helping individuals to overcome sin and addictions.
From the author: Richard Lehman Inspiration for this step guide and training workbook, originally came from other brothers who had themselves been through 12-step programs. I discussed with them about what this type of program would look like from a true Christian perspective. And so this began my burden for writing on the subject. Later … Read more
There is a deep empty hole in the heart of the soul, that must be filled. How we fill that hole, or comfort ourselves with that empty space, will determine what sin we become addicted to. Without a godly direction in our life, the heart will begin to fill itself more all the time with … Read more
1. We admit that we are powerless over our addiction and that our lives have become unmanageable. When a person comes seeking some help for an addiction, there may be various different reasons why they have come to the conclusion that they need help. One of those reasons may be: Their companion is threatening to … Read more
2. We must come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves: Jesus Christ’s sacrificial love, could restore us to sanity. Can I believe? Well if you haven’t completed step one, were you become totally honest with yourself and with God about your addiction, then no! You will not be able to believe. Because to … Read more
3. We make a decision to start trusting the care of a loving Savior for the directions in our lives. If we completed step 1 (being completely honest with ourselves and with God about our addiction) then we can go on to step two: faith and hope. And then as part of step two, we … Read more
4. We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. To get to this “fearless” self search, we must be broken of our own self-protectionists fears. Courage is being afraid, but deciding anyway to continue to still move forward, right through the fear feeling. And as you continue in this step, and the next, … Read more
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. In the previous step, Courage, we made a list of things that others did to us, and that we have done: both that were very personally sensitive to us. Previous to that we likely never wanted to write … Read more
6. We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character If you will recall, back in Step 4 we made a list. This list identified things that have happened to us, that to this day are still impacting our attitude and our behaviors. Then in Step 5 we opened up that … Read more
7. Humbly asked Him to forgive us and remove our shortcomings So now we have completed Step 6, where we made a complete list of all the behaviors that we desire to have removed from our lives. And as we developed this list, we also worked hard to identify the new behaviors that we would … Read more
8. Made a list of persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Use this worksheet to make a list of: who I hurt, and how I hurt them. This Step is part of proving the change that has taken place: to ourselves, and to others. We must take responsibility … Read more