Question: “How can SA as a fellowship work the Steps; I thought only individuals could do that?”
Response: “The idea does sound kind of new and strange, doesn’t it? But let’s see what it might look like.”

1. If we’ve honestly “bottomed out,” we can see and admit SA’s powerlessness over lust and its inability to manage itself spiritually.

2. We can come to believe it is only God who can restore SA to spiritual sanity.

3. We can turn SA—its groups, intergroups, committees, conventions, leaders, its workers, and all its affairs—over to the care of God, trusting he will lead us, instead of our having to “make it happen.”

4. We can institute a Year of Inventory—searching and fearless.

5. We can bring that inventory to the light of all and publish the results.

6 & 7. We can humbly ask God to remove those defects in our fellowship’s spiritual character.

8 & 9. We can begin amending those spiritual wrongs we do see.

10. We can continue taking our fellowship inventory, promptly admitting it to ourselves.

11. We can together improve our conscious contact with God by continually asking for the knowledge of his will for SA, relying on his strength to carry it out, rather than our own rational understanding, knowledge, and expertise.

12. We can test the promise: whether SA will experience a spiritual awakening as the result of having worked these Steps. If we do experience that awakening, then we will have The Answer. Because it will really be working as advertised.

To many it will seem so very strange to even think of putting the priority for running our fellowship into the hands of God unseen. There are always two aspects to SA. One is the organizational, the externals: meetings, committees, conventions, business, etc. The other is the unseen, our spiritual quality. Our success in the externals can obscure or blind us to the reality of SA’s spiritual condition. And for us, without the spiritual reality of true recovery, we have nothing.