" Step 8 is a marvelous tool and technology for very practical incarnation, which keeps Christianity grounded, honest, and focused on saving others instead of just ourselves. “Anyone who claims to be in the light, but hates his brother or sister, is still in the dark” (1 John 2:9). Until religion becomes flesh, it is merely Platonic idealism instead of Jesus radicalism. "

― Richard Rohr , Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps