Step 6 & 7: The key to moving forward ! FORGIVENESS…Step 6 & 7: The key to moving forward ! FORGIVENESS…
GOD TALK UNCENSORED
Zach and Monty talk through Steps 6 and 7 of the 12 steps, focusing on character defects, forgiveness and the need for God to remove inner shortcomings. Their conversation links recovery with sanctification and highlights how Jesus-centred faith can bring deeper change than sobriety alone.
25:32•5 Jun 2026
Step 6 & 7, Forgiveness, and Letting God Remove the Barnacles
Episode Overview
- Steps 6 and 7 are presented as a combined moment of becoming ready for God to remove character defects and then humbly asking Him to do it.
- Character defects such as arrogance, dishonesty, selfishness and stubbornness are distinguished from personality and framed as patterns God aims to change.
- The hosts emphasise that the 12 steps came from a Christian background and are structured to lead people toward a relationship with God through Jesus.
- Recovery is described as a process of sanctification, where God steadily removes spiritual “barnacles” so people can live closer to how He intended.
- Freedom from addiction is linked to more than external change, pointing to forgiveness and restoration found specifically in Jesus.
“I think I’m getting sanctified. I think I’m being made holy.”
What remarkable journeys have people faced head-on against addiction? This conversation from GOD TALK UNCENSORED circles around Steps 6 and 7 of the 12 steps and why forgiveness, especially from God, sits at the heart of moving forward. Host Zach and his co-host Monty keep things light with humour and playful nicknames, but they don’t shy away from hard truths.
They walk through how the original AA steps came out of a Christian background, and how Steps 6 (becoming ready for God to remove “defects of character”) and 7 (humbly asking Him to remove “shortcomings”) work together as a kind of spiritual turning point.
As Zach puts it, “We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character… this is a forgiveness step.” You’ll hear them unpack what “character defects” actually mean: arrogance, dishonesty, selfishness, impulsiveness, stubbornness, jealousy, anger and more. Monty admits he doesn’t like thinking of himself as “defective”, which opens a real-world chat about how easily people excuse these traits as “just my personality” instead of seeing them as patterns God wants to change.
The episode keeps circling back to Jesus as the source of genuine freedom from addiction and sin, not just behaviour tweaks. They share how the 12 steps can lead someone towards faith, even if that person starts out thinking they’re only there to “fix” an alcohol or drug problem. Monty reflects on recovery as sanctification – “I think I’m getting sanctified.
I think I’m being made holy” – while Zach pictures God scraping off “barnacles” so people can finally move through life the way they were designed to. If you’ve ever wrestled with the gap between staying sober and truly changing inside, this honest, Jesus-centred chat might get you thinking about what you’re really ready to let go of today.
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