1. I admitted I was powerless over the wrong thinking of Churchianity—that my life had become meaningless.
2. I came to believe that a Power greater than myself could deliver me from Churchianity and restore me to Christianity.
3. I made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God, and to seek to understood Him as He truly is.
4. I made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself and my Churchian thinking and actions.
5. I admitted to God, to myself, and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs.
6. I work to become entirely ready to have God remove all these defects in my Christianity.
7. I humbly asked Him to remove my shortcomings.
8. I made a list of all persons I had harmed by elevating the church over Christ, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. I made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. I continue to take personal inventory and when I was wrong promptly admitted it.
11. I seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God, praying for knowledge of His will and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, I tried to carry this message to other Churchians, and to elevate Christ over the church in all my affairs.
*Adapted from The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, Copyright # A.A. World Services, Inc. Rev.5/9/02
