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Daughters of Bulgaria has been in conversation with Servants Anonymous this past year. They have encouraged us to go through their 12 steps program called Formation of Servants. It comes from the Alcoholics Anonymous' 12 steps program but instead of combatting alcoholism we are combatting our daily lives and our idols that keep us away from fully knowing Him and enjoying Him.
All I can say is that is that I wish all humans had to go through this. It is not easy. But it is good.
Can you imagine if the church started having these groups and began holding each other accountable.? Can you imagine the restoration? The vulnerability? The community after people begin realizing that we are not alone in our sin?
We are all in recovery and we all need Him to help us.
THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become
unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we
understood Him.
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of
our wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
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Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to
them all.
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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so
would injure them or others.
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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it.
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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.
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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.
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