The document outlines the 12 steps of a program for recovery from sexual addiction. It discusses how the program works, including admitting powerlessness, making amends, and seeking God's will through prayer and meditation. It promises that following the steps will result in freedom, happiness, and an ability to help others through living according to spiritual principles rather than perfection.

1. Virtual Recovery Group

2. Agenda
• Readings
• Stories
• Check-in
• Take Home

3. How It Works
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our
path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not
completely give them- selves to this simple program...They are
naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living
which demands rigorous honesty.There are those, too, who suffer
from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do
recover if they have the capacity to be honest.
Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what
happened, and what we are like now. If you have decided you want
what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it—then you
are ready to take certain steps.

4. How It Works
At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier,
softer way, but we could not. With all the earnestness at our
command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the start.
Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil
until we let go absolutely.
Remember that we deal with sexual addiction—cunning, baffling,
powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has
all power - that one is God. May you find Him now. Half measures
availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His
protection and care with complete abandon. Here are the steps we
took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:

5. 12 Steps
Step 1
We admitted we were powerless over our compulsive sexual behavior—
that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
Step 3
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we
understood God.
Step 4
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature
of our wrongs.
Step 6
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

6. Step 7 12 Steps
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Step 8
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make
amends to them all.
Step 9
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others.
Step 10
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it.
Step 11
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact
with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will
for us and the power to carry that out.
Step 12
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we
tried to carry this message to other sex addicts and to
practice these principles in all of our activities.

7. How It Works
Many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with it.” Do not be
discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect
adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we were willing to
grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress.
We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.
Our understanding of sexual addiction and our personal adventures before and after
make clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were sexually addicted and could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our addictive behavior.
(c) That God could and would if He were sought.

8. The Promises
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before
we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the
word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have
gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness
and selfpity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in
our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will
change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively
know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that
God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—
sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for
them.

9. Question 1 of Heidelberg Catechism
Question 1.
What is thy only comfort in life and death?
Answer:
That I am not my own, but belong— body and soul, in life and in death— to my
faithful Savior Jesus Christ.
He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the
tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall
from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work
together for my salvation. Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures
me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live
for him.
1 Cor. 6:19-20 Rom. 14:7-9 1 Cor. 3:23; Titus 2:14 1 Pet. 1:18-19; 1 John 1:7-9; 2:2 John 8:34-36; Heb. 2:14-15; 1 John 3:1-11 John 6:39-40;
10:27-30; 2 Thess. 3:3; 1 Pet. 1:5 Matt. 10:29-31; Luke 21:16-18 Rom. 8:28 Rom. 8:15-16; 2 Cor. 1:21-22; 5:5; Eph. 1:13-14 Rom. 8:1-17

10. Question 2 of Heidelberg Catechism
Question 2.
What must you know to live and die in the joy of this comfort?
Answer:
Three things: first, how great my sin and misery are;
second, how I am set free from all my sins and misery;
third, how I am to thank God for such deliverance.
Rom. 3:9-10; 1 John 1:10 2 John 17:3; Acts 4:12; 10:43
Matt. 5:16; Rom. 6:13; Eph. 5:8-10; 2 Tim. 2:15; 1 Pet. 2:9-10

11. Question 60 of Heidelberg Catechism
Question 60.
How are you right with God?
Answer:
Only by true faith in Jesus Christ.
Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all
God’s commandments and of never having kept any of them,
and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless,
without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the
perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ,
as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner, as if I had been as perfectly obedient as
Christ was obedient for me.
All I need to do is to accept this gift of God with a believing heart.
Rom. 3:21-28; Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2:8-9; Phil 3:8-11 Rom. 3:9-10 Rom. 7:23 Tit. 3:4-5
Rom. 3:24; Eph. 2:8 Rom. 4:3-5 (Gen. 15:6); 2 Cor. 5:17-19; 1 John 2:1-2 Rom. 4:24-25; 2 Cor. 5:21 John 3:18; Acts 16:30-31

12. Titus 2:11-15
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to
renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and
godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory
of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from
all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are
zealous for good works.
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.