An adaptation of the 12 Steps of AA, by Jillian Who. This version is specifically for those individuals leaving Fundamentalist Christianity.
1.We admitted we had questions about our belief system—that our thoughts and rational thinking didn't really line up with what we'd been taught about God.
2.Came to believe that God may or may not exist as we'd been taught to believe in our legalistic/fundamentalist churches and that people who were abusive to us did not represent God.
3. Made a decision to seek the truth at all cost, even though it made friends and family freak out, worry and sometimes tell us we were going to hell.
4. Made a searching and fearless critique of our belief system. Then did another searching inventory of ourselves. Started the process of healing from wounds that were identified in the inventory.
5. Admitted to ourselves, and to another human being that we have believed wrongly and hurt ourselves and others with our fundamentalist beliefs.
6. Were entirely ready to have an authentic revelation of the goodness of God and to act on that new understanding.
7. Sought through prayer, meditation and showing love to others to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
8. Humbly asked God to remove all hate, fear, bigotry and fundamentalist/legalistic doctrines and to aid us in the healing process.
9. Made a list of all persons we had harmed (including ourselves), and became willing to make amends to them all and commit to seek further healing for ourselves, including professional counseling if necessary.
10. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others or ourselves.
11.Continued to take personal inventory of ourselves and our evolving belief system and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we endeavor to carry this message to enslaved fundamentalists, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
© 12 Steps of Fundamentalism Recovery by Jillian Who 2012