Welcome to Season 4 of Miracles from the Hill Podcast: a survey of The Twelve Steps.
In this season, we will take a closer look at The Twelve Steps and how Miracle Hill Ministries incorporates this resource into our recovery programs.
When people think about “The Twelve Steps” they may associate this resource with Alcoholics Anonymous or another similar recovery group. While these steps have their history in AA, The Twelve Steps is a resource that can be broadened beyond just the scope of these types of meetings. Miracle Hill Ministries uses an adapted version of The Twelve Steps in our recovery programs. This adapted version of The Twelve Steps puts Jesus at the center of recovery, helping guests think through their story with Christ as the focal point.
Throughout this season, Ryan will sit down with various people on the podcast and talk through the steps in-depth. For listeners, this is a great resource to better understand the journey of Miracle Hill Ministry guests who are a part of our recovery programs as well as contemplating areas in our own lives that may need greater freedom and cleansing.
This episode is a conversation between Ryan and Brad which broadly discusses the nature of addiction. Brad is the director of Overcomer’s, Miracle Hill’s men’s addiction-recovery facility to launch season 4.
Below are The Twelve Steps taken from Alcoholics Anonymous website. (Linked here.)
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. 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.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With men, it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.” Mark 10:27
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