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We have become Aid Addicts. Addicted to the benefits and therefore the [[Benefactors]] of the [[World]] and the [[Fathers]] of the earth.

We generally do not know what we are to repent of but it is simple. We are still trying to play a god, seeking to control others, rather than serve god by seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness. So how would we apply the twelve step plan to breaking that addiction to the ways of the [[World]]?


== Aid Addicts Step 1 Admit==

"We admitted we were powerless to change ourselves and our own thinking."
This is one of the primary reasons why [[Why Congregate|we need to congregate]].

== Aid Addicts Step 2 Believe there is a loving power==

"Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to Righteousness."
You must have hope and faith that you will return to a healthy state. This will involve God, spirituality and meditation or contemplation in the healing process. [[Pure Religion]] will be a part of that.

== Aid Addicts Step 3 Admit ==

"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God not just a created image of God ion our own minds."

The Church is a strictly Christian organization because it is established by the real Jesus Christ. This may be different than what you originally were taught and you must want to h and righteousness of the real Jesus Christ.

== Aid Addicts Step 4 Search our hearts and minds ==

"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
A major step that happens after admitting a problem is admitting to your faults and weaknesses, your appetites and sloth. The loving rebuke of others is another reason for primary reasons why [[Why Congregate|we need to congregate]].  

== Aid Addicts Step 5 Confess ==

"Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
Knowing what you have done wrong and admitting it are two very different things. Admitting past errors and wrongs to a group and receiving support to change your life is is another primary reasons why [[Why Congregate|we need to congregate]] .

== Aid Addicts Step 6 Sacrifice ==

"Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character."
Christ came to serve and sacrifice and we must do the same which is again why [[Why Congregate|we need to congregate]].

== Aid Addicts Step 7 Humility ==

"Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
Putting others first and ourselves second is a confirmation in aid to others as a humble foot washing servant is why [[Why Congregate|we need to congregate]] and in that doing a spirituality may grow in us through the mutual process of  healing, prayer, meditation, of charity, hope and faith in [[The Way]] of God.

== Aid Addicts Step 8 Forgiveness ==

"Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all."
We are all [[In need of forgiveness‏‎]] which is a mutual process which may began [[Congregations|in our congregations]] but must reach out to the rest of the world in humility and sacrifice in the same process of healing forgiveness.


== Aid Addicts Step 9 Amends ==

"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others." In many cases, admitting you're wrong, apologizing and informing a person that you're getting help is enough to have that person's support. We have all been a part of covetousness and to love others and even our enemy we need to seek recompense to other with the [[Self-Sacrifice]]‎ of the  [[Red Heifer]].

== Aid Addicts Step 10 Inner Process==

"Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it."
There are many layers to our addictions. It is not just our support from the Benefactors of the World but the false security we get from "professionals" and other mercenaries like the preachers and pastors for profit or doctors and lawyers. We must seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit while living in the [[World]] but not of it. We must learn to eat of the [[Trees|tree of life]] which is the Holy Spirit.

== Aid Addicts Step 11 Practice Listening ==

"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 he power to carry that out."
The process is a one that encompasses all the steps level after level. Arrogant pride must diminish in order to hear the still small voice in all things. "And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice." 1 Kings 19:12  

== Aid Addicts Step 12 Practicing ==

"Having had a spiritual awakening continue in us as a result of taking these steps, we try to carry this message of the kingdom to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Practicing what Christ preached is another serious aspect of the 12-step program. That includes a [[Daily ministration]] for your congregation and giving back to the community that has helped you to receive the truth. The main point of this is to help others seek help when they need it which may help them focus on more positive aspects of life. Community service, aiding others and working with future [[Congregations]] are all essentials of seeking the [[Kingdom of God]] and His righteousness. 

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