• Romans 7:15, 17–18
  
  

Step 2 (Faith)
We came to believe that the Spirit of Christ’s power at work in us could enable us to break free from the insanity cycle of sin and increasingly restore us to spiritual wholeness.

• Philippians 2:12–13

Step 3 (Repentance)
We considered ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus and thereby consistently and increasingly surrendered our wills and entrusted our lives to Christ’s care and control.

• Romans 6:11–13

Step 4 (Self-Examination)
We engaged in a spiritual battle over the reign and rule of our hearts by undertaking a searching and fearless self-examination of the ungodly fruits of our lives to increasingly uncover the ungodly roots that drive our thoughts, actions, and emotions.

• Lamentations 3:40
• Psalm 139:23–24

Step 5 (Confession)
We confessed to God, to ourselves, and to another person the ungodly roots and fruits of sin that destroy our lives in order that we may be healed.

• James 5:16

Step 6 (Mortification)
By the Spirit, we put to death the deeper roots that enslaved us to these sinful patterns by renouncing our former ways and asking God to deliver us, heal us, and transform our hearts.

• Romans 8:13
• Colossians 3:5–9

Step 7 (Vivification)
We offer ourselves to God by asking Him, by His Holy Spirit, (1) to transform our affections to love Him and those things that He loves and (2) to empower us to increasingly live our lives in joyful obedience to His will.

• Colossians 3:1–4

Step 8 (Joy and Satisfaction in God)
We willingly and actively seek out and apply all the individual and corporate means of grace that God has provided in order that we might glorify God by finding our greatest joy and satisfaction in God Himself and obedience to Him.

• Psalm 43:3–4
• Colossians 3:16

Step 9 (Peacemaking)
We admitted that sin has had devastating effects on our relationships. Therefore, we made a list of: (1) All persons we had harmed and became willing to ask for forgiveness from them all and (2) All persons who had harmed us and became willing and ready to extend forgiveness to all who ask for it.

• Leviticus 6:2–7

Step 10 (Forgiveness)
Whenever possible, we asked forgiveness from those whom we have sinned against and extended forgiveness to those who ask for it, except when to do so would injure them or others.

• Matthew 5:23–24

Step 11 (Perseverance)
We continue to put to death those things that rob our affections for Christ and to offer ourselves to God by living our lives in joyful obedience to His will. When we sin, we quickly ask for forgiveness from all whom we harmed. When we are sinned against, we extend forgiveness to those who ask for it.

• Galatians 6:8–12

Step 12 (Discipleship)
Having experienced this continuous, progressive, and joy-filled spiritual transformation of mind, heart, and will, we zealously commend Him whom we cherish by imploring others to join us on this journey of spiritual transformation that they too might find the joy and satisfaction they have been seeking in Christ alone.

• Ephesians 4:28
• Isaiah 12:3–5