CWSA - Step #3

CWSA - Step #3

What drives someone to seek a life without addiction? This episode of **Christians with Secret Addictions** focuses on Step #3 of the 12-step journey: making a decision to turn your will and life over to the care of God. Host Terry Hanna, a Christian with over 32 years of recovery, speaks openly about addiction as a disease and mental illness, and about the spiritual route to healing.

You’ll hear how Terry links the classic recovery step to Romans 12:1–2, where Paul urges believers to offer their bodies as a "living and holy sacrifice" and to let God change the way they think. Terry breaks this down into two core ideas: worship and sacrifice. As he puts it, "Worship is our response to what we love the most," and we inevitably sacrifice for whatever we hold sacred.

The episode contrasts past devotion to alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, sex, or money with a new commitment to Jesus. Terry describes how many people "lived to use and used to live", sacrificing faith, family, health, and future to their addictions, and he doesn’t shy away from naming Satan as "the God of this secular world" who blinds minds to the truth and keeps people trapped in denial. Yet the tone isn’t all doom and gloom.

Terry keeps returning to the "good news" that Jesus’ death and resurrection break the power of sin and addiction, offering a "free gift of salvation" and a way out of slavery to destructive habits. Step #3 becomes a practical, spiritual choice: stay a slave to sin and addiction, or turn your will and life over to God and move towards "righteous living". He ends with a challenge that lingers: who are you worshipping and sacrificing for today?

If you’re wrestling with addiction and looking for a faith-based path to recovery, this meeting-style episode might be exactly what you need to think that through.