“Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.  For it is a good thing that the heart be established with Grace; not with meats, which have not profited them who have been occupied therein.” Hebrews 13:9.  God will not accept the strange doctrines we bring to the altar.  These divers rituals are not what establishes the heart in grace.  The 12 steps, 40 days, prayer shawls and shoffars can’t  defeat sin, no matter how holy and righteous they appear.   God has supplied us with everything we need to overcome sin…His name is Jesus Christ.  Simple faith in Who God sent to the Altar for us will establish a heart in grace and empower us through, the Holy Spirit, to be raised a new creature and to live the resurrected life.  ANYTHING else brought to the Altar is not faith in Jesus Christ and Him Crucified but faith in a corrupt sacrifice.  Donna Clark Warren