Available now · The Steps Workbook
Transform Your Life
When Willpower
Isn’t Enough
The Steps book gives you the what.
The workbook gives you the how.
A companion to John Ortberg's Steps · Published by Tyndale
01 / THE WORKBOOK
ONE STEP AT A TIMEAvailable now
Room to do
the work.
Grab a pen. The Steps Workbook walks you through each of the 12 steps with reflection questions and practices you can bring into your everyday life.
- 01Space to write.
Reflection, prayers, and personal next steps.
- 02Go at your own pace.
Spend a day, a month, or a year on each step.
- 03Made for one or many.
Work through it on your own or with a group.
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02 / THE MASTERCLASS
Watch the Steps Masterclass
All 12 free video teachings with John Ortberg are now available. Watch at your own pace alongside the workbook. Tap to expand the banner, then enter the lesson.
The first step is not to fix it or solve it or manage it or minimize it or claim victory over it. It’s to name it—write it down even.
Take a moment to reflect on an area of life where you have been living in the defeat of “but I . . .” Name that area concretely now.
Willingness implies a surrendering of one’s self-separateness, an entering-into, an immersion in the deepest processes of life itself.
First, gauge your willingness. Ask yourself: Am I willing to do whatever is needed to know the truth about myself as best I can, with God’s help?
Coming to the point of being willing to confess is difficult. Begin with prayer.
Naming our resistance brings great change. Take a few moments to allow your go-to excuses to come to the surface.
Humility may be harder for us than ever, but humility is necessary to approach God and ask him to remove our character defects.
Make a list of the people you’ve hurt. If in doubt, put them on the list.
Think of one specific way you have hurt one specific person. Ask, How would I feel if I were that person?
Begin Crafting for Yourself a Daily Review. Ask for God’s help. Inventory your blessings. Pray about significant feelings that emerge as you review the day.
Ask God to help you become more aware of what you’re thinking through the day. What am I thinking right now? What am I feeling? What am I doing?
The strange truth is that the story of our weakness, failure, and pain often becomes a gift we can offer that brings hope to others.
03 / THE FOUNDATION
John walks through all Twelve Steps as a framework for spiritual formation—not just for people in recovery, but for anyone willing to be honest about what they can't control. Start here.
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