THE FOUNDATION OF ADDICTION RECOVERY
The 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous has
been the foundation of all addiction recovery programs around the world for
nearly 7 decades! It attracts millions of loyal members to meetings in every
city and town everyday. While millions of alcoholics and addicts have found
sobriety in its meetings, millions more spend years and years relapsing over
and over again, until they either quit and give up, or die, or become so depressed or unhealthy they wish they would, and many commit suicide! Many more end up homeless or in prisons or in other institutions with
mental health issues.
It is this
author’s opinion, and has been for the past 32 years that I’ve been clean and
sober, that the millions of alcoholics and addicts who fail the program, do so
because of a very dangerous, even fatal flaw in the last part of Step 3! The first part is absolutely correct in stating that "we must turn our wills and lives over to the care of God", but not to a "god of our understanding"! AA, while professing to the
world that they are of a Christian background or foundation, (The Oxford
Group), and then suggesting in step 3 that there are many gods to choose from,
is pure heresy! Even the least experienced atheist knows what God says about
His Sovereignty, Exodus 20:3 (KJV) Thou shalt have no other gods
before me. It is well known throughout the AA community that most
of its members who fail the program, do so in step 3. They even refer to its
commonality as the 1-2-3-step-relapse dance!
Until AA addresses this
issue, and leads its members to The truth that there is “but One God,” to turn
their lives and wills over to, there will continue to be millions of alcoholics
and addicts who finally conquer their battle with denial, only to be led astray
when they arrive at a 12 step meeting or program, and led to believe that an
undefined, imaginary, powerless “god of their understanding” will answer their
prayers and deliver them from their addictions!
Until AA
does decide to address this issue, assuming that someday they might, it is
going to be my mission to do all I can do to share God’s Truth with those who
are not getting it in AA meetings. As a Christian, delivered from my sin and
addictions 32 years ago only by God’s Love, according to His Word, by Grace
Alone, through Faith Alone, and in Christ Alone, I feel God’s calling to “be a
fisher of man” and to “follow” and “obey” Him !
There are
many members of AA who claim to be Christians. If you are one of them, than you
should know that Gods Word does not support the idea that a man can make up “a
god of his own understanding”, but that there is only “ONE GOD,” and that any attempt to follow any other
imaginary, false gods will be in vain! There are no other “gods” who can answer
prayer and perform the miracles that are necessary to “set free”
alcoholics and addicts from their addictions! If you are one of the many
Christians attending AA meetings, you are instructed by God in Matthew 28:19-20 (KJV) to, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” And in Matthew 16:24 (KJV), then said
Jesus unto his disciples, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross, and follow me.” And in John 14:15 (KJV) “If
ye love me, keep my commandments.”
These simple instructions should leave little doubt about what God would have
us do when confronted with those sitting next to us in a meeting who do not
know which direction to turn when they reach Step 3!
Good fishermen know the fish, know the
waters, and know what bait to use! To be a successful “fisher of men” we must
know no less! Recovered alcoholics and addicts should know the fish, know the
waters, and know the bait better than anyone else! Most recovered alcoholics
and addicts should recognize the dark, murky waters of AA meetings that are
overflowing with alcoholics and addicts and lost souls struggling with
addictions. A recovered Christian sitting in an AA meeting should recognize the
unique position God has placed them in to reach out to one of those lost souls
with The Truth that “set you free”!
If you’re ready to move forward in your
recovery, and answer Gods call for your service, I have written a new book
titled Step 3
Addiction Recovery that was written
specifically to help you in reaching others for Christ! It speaks to the hearts
of the millions of lost souls who have been mislead in Step 3 to believe that
there is more than one God to choose from to deliver them from their addictions.
It shows them how they will continue to relapse over and over again until they
choose Jesus Christ as their Savior. As Christians involved in addiction
recovery we know that this one simple Truth will lead them to sobriety and Salvation!
Step 3
Addiction Recovery is a tool that every good “fisher of men” should keep in their tackle
box, next to their Bible, and use and share often!
If you're sick and tired of being sick and tired of one relapse after another, it's clearly time to re-evaluate any past choice you made in step 3 and reach out to Jesus Christ! The simple act of making the right choice in Step 3 will "make your last relapse, your last relapse"!
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