Category: 12 Steps
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Step One: stepping down
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. It has been estimated that over two million people worldwide are currently partaking in the assistance provided by an Alcoholics Anonymous group, and AA has been in existence for 83 years. That alone should tell us that the twelve step principles are…
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Course correction
“AA is one of the only places I know where you can claim to be the worst person in the room and have to fight for the title.” – Tom, commenting on one of this week’s Catches Time for a slight course correction. You need to always leave room to be able to do this…
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Mutual aid fellowship
Many people’s experience with church is spending an hour on Sunday morning or Saturday night worshiping God in music and listening to someone teach from the word of God. Contact with others is limited and entirely up to you to decide how you want to extend yourself. You can slip in the back and slip…
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A.A. Meeting Tonight
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid fellowship of men and women coming together with the stated purpose of staying sober and helping other alcoholics achieve sobriety. It was founded in 1935 by two drunks, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith of Akron, Ohio. Though it originally grew out of a Christian…
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A different kind of Christian
I am firmly convinced, now, more than ever, that the 12-step program as originally adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous, is closer to capturing the true essence of a Christian’s attitude and relationship to God Alcoholics Anonymous and to others than anything taught or modeled in our Christian churches at least in my lifetime. If all Christians…