Quoted from the book, Twelve Steps for the Recovering Pharisee (like me):
- We admit that our single most unmitigated pleasure is to judge other people.
- Have come to believe that our means of obtaining greatness is to make everyone lower than ourselves in our own mind.
- Realize that we detest mercy being given to those who, unlike us, haven’t worked for it and don’t deserve it.
- Have decided that we don’t want to get what we deserve after all, and we don’t want anyone else to either.
- Will cease all attempts to apply teaching and rebuke to anyone but ourselves.
- Are ready to have God remove all these defects of attitude and character.
- Embrace the belief that we are, and will always be, experts at sinning.
- Are looking closely at the lives of famous men and women of the Bible who turned out to be ordinary sinners like us.
- Are seeking through prayer and meditation to make a conscious effort to consider others better than ourselves.
- Embrace the state of astonishment as a permanent and glorious reality.
- Choose to rid ourselves of any attitude that is not bathed in gratitude.
- 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.
