Part One: Four Powerful Reasons for Re-examining and
Applying Old School A.A. Ideas Today
1. So you can
recover immediately—like the first three AAs did
2. To prevent
relapse—based on a standard of permanent abstinence, rather than accepting or
excusing revolving-door recidivism approaches
3. To guide
speakers and sponsors—and instruct newcomers on the foregoing
4. To enhance
recovery itself—through belief in the Creator and His healing and forgiving
power, fellowship with like-minded believers, avoiding temptation, effectively
praying, receiving God’s guidance, and claiming real healing and cure of
alcoholism.
Part Two: Four Major Barriers to Present-day Recovery
Potential
1. The “Higher
Power” craze [“the fool hath said there is no god”; just select some nonsense
god (See Psa 115) Use absurd names and call “it” a “higher power.” And return
to emphasis on human help, treatment, and “therapeutic” approaches.
2. Stopping
short of turning to and relying upon God—the “power source” named as our
“Heavenly Father” in Big Book page 181, and “the Lord” in Big Book page 191.
3. The failure
to know God and grow in knowledge of Him and denying the necessity for seeking
and relying on God—See Hebrews 11:6.
4. The day-in
day-out swallowing of myths:
a. Belief not
required—But see Heb. 11:6.
b. Declaring
A.A. is “Spiritual, but not religious”—a meaningless detour.
c. Saying
Relapse is okay—a growing excuse for failing programs.
d. Choosing
your own conception of some unknown “power”—But see Psa 115.
e. Denying that
A.A. was ever Bible-based or Christian, and naming multiple irrelevant and
unproven “sources” for its variety of phases and ideas—Buddhism, Roman
Catholicism, Oxford Group, Emmet Fox, New Age, spiritualism, Free-Masonry, and
the lack of importance of sin and the devil as causative factors.
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