12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee!

Jennifer Ivens posted the following over at Gospel of Grace.  Check it out below or follow the link.

I’ve been reading this book that was given to me from a good friend called the 12 Steps For The Recovering Pharisee.
I thought it was an amazing book and decided to share the 12 Steps

Step 1. We admit that our single most umitigated pleasure is to
judge other people.
Step 2. Have come to beleive that our means of obtaining greatness
is to make everyone lower than ourselves in our own mind.
Step 3. Realize that we destest mercy being given to those who,
unlike us,haven’t worked for it and don’t deserve it.
Step 4. Have decided that we don’t want to get what we
deserve after all, and we don’t want anyone else to either.
Step 5. Will cease all attempts to apply teaching and rebuke
to anyone but ourselves.
Step 6. Are ready to have God remove all these defects of
attitude and character.
Step 7. Embrace the belief that we are, and will always, be
experts at sinning.
Step 8. Are looking closely at the lives of famous men and
women of the bible who turned out to be ordinary sinners
like us.
Step 9. Are seeking through prayer and meditation to make a
conscious effort to consider others better than ourselves.
Step 10. Embrace the state of astonishment as a permanent and
glorious reality
Step 11. Choose to rid ourselves of any attitude that is not bathed in
gratitude.
Step 12. Having had a spiritual awaking as the result of these steps,
We will try to carry this message to others who think
that Christians are better than anyone else.

Cliff Jul 6th 2007 11:56 pm Mercy, Grace, Truth, Cliff 2 Comments Trackback URI Comments RSS

2 Responses to “12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee!”

  1. steveon 07 Jul 2007 at 11:19 am link comment

    I can relate…especially step 4. Thank God that His mercy endures forever.

  2. shellyon 07 Jul 2007 at 9:50 pm link comment

    Thanks for (re)posting this. I can relate as well. *nods*

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