Steps
in
Grace
12-Step Audio Bible Study by Grant C. Richison
Dr. Grant C. Richison prepared audio Bible studies based on the 12 Steps* of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Although it is oriented to recovering alcoholics, the principles are applicable and effective for all recovery programs. The application of these Christian principles from Scripture to experience radically changed his own life. This was the cause for a lifetime of teaching the Bible verse-by-verse.
These recordings were originally on cassette tape in the 1970s and listened to by a group of recovering alcoholics and their spouses in Winnipeg for many years. Wilf Ns ministry drew many to a saving faith in Jesus Christ and we are privileged and thrilled to make them available here.
For additional Bible Study, visit Dr. Richison's Verse-by-Verse Commentary.
For your convenience, here are THE ORIGINAL twelve steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:
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.