TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fischer,John
TI  - 12 steps for the recovering Pharisee (like me)
SN  - 9780764222023
AV  - BV4509.F529.S747 2000 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - Bethany House Publishers
KW  - Christian life
KW  - Pharisees
KW  - Miscellanea
N1  - Step 1. We admit that our single most unmitigated pleasure is to judge other people --; Step 2. Have come to believe that our means of obtaining greatness is to make everyone lower than ourselves in our own mind --; Step 3. Realize that we detest 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 awakening as the result of these steps, we will try to carry this message to others who think that Christians are better than everyone else; 2
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