Chapter 3 The Real Alcoholics Anonymous
(excerpt)
(excerpt)
In this chapter, I have written the Alcoholics Anonymous method of recovery while stripping away all of the prevarication and duplicity that AA buries their theology in.
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
What Alcoholics Anonymous Actually Means
What Alcoholics Anonymous Actually Means
Step 1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable without God.
Step 2 Came to believe God would lift my alcoholism from me with a miracle.
Step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the God of the Bible that I will learn to love and call by name.
Step 4 Made a searching and fearless inventory for how we have committed the Seven Deadly Sins.
Step 5 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human how we have committed Sin.
Step 6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these Seven Deadly Sins from our souls.
Step 7 Humbly asked Him to remove all of these Seven Deadly Sins from our souls.
Step 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10 Continued to take personal inventory of how we have committed the Seven Deadly Sins and when we sinned promptly admitted it.
Step 11 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the Christian God that we love and call by name, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Step 12 Having had a spiritual awakening to a God-consciousness as a result of these steps, we tried to lure other alcoholics into the AA religion whether they wanted our religion or not, and to practice these rituals in all our affairs.
Step 2 Came to believe God would lift my alcoholism from me with a miracle.
Step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the God of the Bible that I will learn to love and call by name.
Step 4 Made a searching and fearless inventory for how we have committed the Seven Deadly Sins.
Step 5 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human how we have committed Sin.
Step 6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these Seven Deadly Sins from our souls.
Step 7 Humbly asked Him to remove all of these Seven Deadly Sins from our souls.
Step 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10 Continued to take personal inventory of how we have committed the Seven Deadly Sins and when we sinned promptly admitted it.
Step 11 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the Christian God that we love and call by name, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Step 12 Having had a spiritual awakening to a God-consciousness as a result of these steps, we tried to lure other alcoholics into the AA religion whether they wanted our religion or not, and to practice these rituals in all our affairs.