Steps // Week 6: Embracing Vulnerability // Pastor Blaine Keene + Testimony by Jourdan Duplessie

Step Six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Step Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Celebrate Recovery, Principle 5: Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. The Gospel invites us to be active participants in a process of transformation that can only happen by God’s grace and power working in us. The goal of the Gospel in us is our complete transformation into the likeness of Jesus Christ – now and for eternity. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” - Romans 12:1-2 The Serenity Prayer written by Reinhold Niebuhr: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.