Advocating Truth about Alcoholics
Anonymous History and the A.A. Fellowship
Dick B.
© 2013 Anonymous. All rights reserved
• I have a
dream – a plan that will challenge us all, glorify God, serve others, and stop
a recognizable, secular flow toward idolatry, half-truth, myths, and shop-worn
failures.
1. In the
simplest form, recovered Christian recovery leaders and workers will learn the
elements that made recovery with God’s help effective, permanent, and worthy of
our efforts.
2. In a sense,
we can unite in the idea that recovery—albeit A.A., Twelve Steps, or Christian
fellowships and programs—needs an historical overhaul and return to four
founding ideas: (a) We don’t drink or use no matter what. (b) We need God’s
help to resist the drugs, resist the devil, resist temptation, and seek the
power which He alone makes available. (c) Without more knowledge about God, His
Son, and His Word, we will have little assurance of progress and truth. (d) The
end product of our efforts is our own dedication to helping those who still
suffer.
In brief, (a) Quit for good. (b) Look only to God. (c)
Humbly learn. (d) Help others.
3. We can and
should draw on the ample supply of present-day official literature that
supports and always has supported reliance on God. We’ll give examples.
4. We can and
should memorize in simplest form the facts about how the early AAs did exactly what
we have described and where we can find those facts. We’ll point to a pamphlet,
a First Edition of the Big Book, a summary of today’s language, and the
evidence in two of our books which draw on DR.
BOB and the Good Old-timers, the 4th edition of the Big Book, the Personal
stories of the pioneers, and long recognized and successful First Century
Christianity practices underlying our founding.
Ken and I, primarily as reporters and content providers,
have several specific approaches we would like to have you consider.
1. Begin
thinking of ourselves as a Fellowship of workers for truth about recovery
2. Work
regionally to meet, network, encourage, inform, and promote growth
3. Launch a new
focus on short, structured, instructed, informative beginners groups
4. Use your own
programs, talents, ideas, resources, and experience to work with us at the
launching stage.
5. Develop appealing and attracting
presentation methods with the following: (a) Short classes. (b) Short audios.
(c) Short videos. (d) Short plays. (e) Short radio programs. (f) (g) Short
YouTubes, (h) Simple pamphlets for free distribution. (i) Workshops and conferences
if needed. (j) Dedicated speakers. (k) Specified Fellowship meetings that
resemble present-day study groups, prayer groups, Bible groups,
Conference-approved literature groups, Eleventh Step groups, Origins and roots
groups, and Big Book—Sponsor, History, Spiritual, Bible, Step groups. (l)
Purposeful blogs, forums, Facebook, Twitter, chats, area seminars and webinars.
6. Stress tolerance of diversity rather
than inclusiveness that seeks to reduce ideas to levels of mediocrity,
compromise, and rigidity.
Four resources that pave the way:
The Co-Founders of
Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches Their Last Major Talks
Alcoholics Anonymous “The
Big Book” The Original 1939 Edition: Bill W. With a New Introduction by Dick B.
(Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 2011)
Stick with the
Winners! http://mcaf.ee/s50mq (Available
in paperback and Kindle formats through Amazon.com)
Pioneer Stories in
Alcoholics Anonymous http://mcaf.ee/gj7iw
(Available in paperback and Kindle formats through Amazon.com
Contact Dick B., 808 874 4876; dickb@dickb.com
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