1 | Date | Topic | Chapter | Scripture | Step |
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2 | 3/5/2017 | The Need for Transformation | Preface and Introduction | Romans 9-19, 23 | |
3 | 3/12/2017 | The Courage to Change / Powerlessness | Chapter 1 | Romans 7:15,18; Isaiah 38:12-14; Matthew 9:36 | We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. |
4 | 3/19/2017 | Hope for Change / Desperate Desire | Chapter 2 | Mark 9:23-24; Deuteronomy 33:27; 2 Corinthians 1:9; Luke 15:21 | Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. |
5 | 3/26/2017 | Decision Time / Surrender | Chapter 3 | Proverbs 3:5-6; Isaiah 55:1-2; Philippians 2:12-13; Matthew 7:7-8 | Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. |
6 | 4/2/2017 | Daring to Face Ourselves | Chapter 4 | Lamentations 3:40; Psalm 50:16-17; James 3:14; Matthew 26:41 | Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves |
7 | 4/9/2017 | Coming Clean | Chapter 5 | James 5:16; Psalm 32:3-5; John 20:23 | Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. |
8 | 4/16/2017 | Easter Sunday -- No Class | |||
9 | 4/23/2017 | Ready and willing | Chapter 6 | Romans 12:1-2; Lamentations 3:21-22; Philippians 3:12; Romans 9:16; Luke 5:12 | Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. |
10 | 4/30/2017 | The Quest for Humility | Chapter 7 | James 4:10; Psalm 51:1-2; Philippians 4:6-7; Matthew 6:7-8 | Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. |
11 | 5/7/2017 | Reflecting on Relationships | Chapter 8 | 1 John 4:20-21; 2 Samuel 12:7,13; Romans 2:1; Matthew 5:23-24 | Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. |
12 | 5/14/2017 | Restitution | Chapter 9 | Matthew 5:23-24; Proverbs 25:11-12; James 1:23; Luke 15:19 | Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. |
13 | 5/21/2017 | Maintaining Progress | Chapter 10 | 1 Corinthians 10:12; Psalm 19:12; Romans 2:14-15; John 21:17 | Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. |
14 | 5/28/2017 | Finding God's Will | Chapter 11 | Matthew 26:39; Psalm 46:10; Ephesians 4:22-23; Mark 1:35 | 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. |
15 | 6/4/2017 | Sharing the Message | Chapter 12 | Mark 5:19; Isaiah 38:16-17,19; Psalm 78:3-4; Luke 22:31-32; Matthew 10:8 | 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. |
16 | 6/11/2017 | What next? Or starting over again! |