12 Step Teaching

DENIAL

PRINCIPLE 1: Realize I'm not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable.
{ "Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor" -Matthew 5:3 }
STEP 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors. That our lives had become unmanageable.
{ "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out." -Romans 7:18 }