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The Twelve Steps for Christians Review
User Submitted The Twelve Steps for Christians ReviewsSeptember 28, 2008 Christians need healing too For Christian seeking healing from any addiction, this book will help you understand that healing through the 12 steps is scripturally based. September 23, 2008 A.A. and Christianity Today - Bible Roots Alcoholics Anonymous and the Bible: I applaud any title which points readers back to A.A.'s major spiritual source--the Bible. I do believe that this, and other books like it, would be greatly enhanced in value for the reader if that reader looked into the actual Biblical ideas and sources that contributed to the 12 Step Movement. For example, see The Good Book and The Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the BibleThe Good Book and the Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the Bible (Bridge Builders Edition); The James Club and The Original A.A. Program's Absolute Essentials The James Club and the Original A.A. Program's Absolute Essentials; and Making Known the Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous Making Known the Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous: A Sixteen-Year Research, Writing, Publishing, and Fact Dissemination Project, Third Edition. February 18, 2008 The Twelve Steps for Christians The Twelve Steps for Christians provides a study for alcoholics, addicts, etc. who KNOW WHO their GOD is. We have created a recovery group using this book that brings believers together in CHRIST for their recovery. The scriptures and CHRIST HIMSELF are the ROCK upon which we follow the 12 steps and change lives. It has been a welcomed ministry for our church and a blessing for the christian who needs to attend 12 step meetings,...keep their eyes upon JESUS and what HIS GRACE and MERCY have done for them, ...and practice becoming a truly new creature IN CHRIST. January 24, 2008 The Book is Excellent The book is an invaluable tool in the work I do. I recommend it to anyone who is struggling with any kind of addiction. This book was written by several men and women who did not want credit for it but that God would get all the credit. The profits from the book go to other ministries not a person for gain. December 31, 2007 Good stuff, Maynard A balanced, helpful guide to 12 step work. Best used in a group setting. I find the fourth step is particularly well written; it provides a good framework for the inventory. The group guidelines keep the discussion focused on personal recovery. A great way to implement Biblical principles in the daily life of the believer. May 13, 2007 The Twelve Steps for Christians I was very pleased that the book was written by a group that remained anonymous and that they kept very focused on maintaining the integrity of the original 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is not a Christianizing of the Steps. Rather it is the 12-Steps standing on their own, but cross validating the fundamental truths that are found in both Christianity and the 12-Steps. After all, the 10 Commandments and the 12-Steps have the same author. And that author is not Moses or Bill W. but a higher power God, that can free us from all of our various forms of self-will run riot. April 9, 2007 Cult Literature For that matter, the whole blame game is a bait-and-switch stunt. They will start off by telling you that it isn't your fault, alcoholism is not a moral stigma because it's a disease and you are powerless over it. " I was a sick person. I was suffering from an actual disease that had a name and symptoms like diabetes or cancer or TB -- and a disease was respectable, not a moral stigma!" The Big Book, Marty Mann, Women Suffer Too, 3rd Edition page 227 and 4th Edition page 205. But after you have joined Alcoholics Anonymous and become a committed member, then they will tell you that you are guilty and personally responsible for everything. The First Step showed me that I was powerless over alcohol and anything else that threatened my sobriety or muddled my thinking. Alcohol was only a symptom of much deeper problems of dishonesty and denial. Listening to the Wind, A.A. Grapevine, December 2001, page 34. It's all just a mind game designed to get you to surrender to the cult. Wilson was serially unfaithful to his wife Lois. Wilson 's affairs with women caused controversy and concern within AA and it was common knowledge in New York AA circles. His interest in younger women increased with his age, and caused Barry Leach and other friends of Wilson to form a "Founders Watch". People were assigned to keep an eye on Wilson during the socializing that followed AA functions and to separate and steer away those young women who caught Wilson's interest. Wilson, like many in his generation, could be sexist, but he was also "capable of treating the women who worked with him with dignity and respect". In the mid 1950s he began an affair with Helen Wyn, a woman 22 years his junior, "in duration, intensity and scope" this was different from his other affairs. Wilson at one point discussed divorcing Lois to marry Helen. Wilson with determined perseverance was able to overcome the AA trustees objections, and renegotiated his royalty agreements with them in 1963, which allowed him to include Helen Wynn in his estate. He left 10% of his book royalties to Helen and the other 90% to his wife Lois. In 1968 with Wilson's illness making it harder for them to spend time together, Helen bought a house in Ireland. Alternative cures and spiritualism In the 1950s Wilson experimented with LSD in medically supervised experiments with Gerard Heard and Aldous Huxley. With Wilson's invitation his wife Lois, Father Dowling, and Nell Wing also participated in experimentation of this drug. Later Wilson wrote to Carl Jung, praising the results and recommending it as validation of Jung's spiritual experience. (The letter was not in fact sent as Jung had died.) At a parapsychology meeting in the 1960s, Wilson met Abram Hoffer and learned about the potential mood-stabilizing effects of niacin. Wilson was impressed with experiments indicating that alcoholics who were given niacin had a better sobriety rate, and he began to see niacin "as completing the third leg in the stool, the physical to complement the spiritual and emotional." Wilson also believed that niacin had given him relief from depression, and he promoted the vitamin within the AA community and with the National Institute of Mental Health as a treatment for schizophrenia. However, Wilson created a major furor in AA because he used the AA office and letterhead in his promotion. For Wilson, spiritualism (communicating with the spirits of the dead) was a life-long interest. One of his letters to his spiritual adviser Father Ed Dowling suggests that while Wilson was working on his book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions he felt that spirits were helping him, in particular a 15th century monk named Boniface.[18] Wilson believed that the living could communicate with the dead and kept a "Spook Room" in his basement, where he along and others would conduct seances with a Ouijiboard, as well as experiment with automatic writing. Despite his conviction that he had evidence for the reality of the spiritual world, Wilson chose not to share this with AA. The Harvard Mental Health Letter, from The Harvard Medical School, stated quite plainly: On their own There is a high rate of recovery among alcoholics and addicts, treated and untreated. According to one estimate, heroin addicts break the habit in an average of 11 years. Another estimate is that at least 50% of alcoholics eventually free themselves although only 10% are ever treated. One recent study found that 80% of all alcoholics who recover for a year or more do so on their own, some after being unsuccessfully treated. When a group of these self-treated alcoholics was interviewed, 57% said they simply decided that alcohol was bad for them. Twenty-nine percent said health problems, frightening experiences, accidents, or blackouts persuaded them to quit. Others used such phrases as "Things were building up" or "I was sick and tired of it." Support from a husband or wife was important in sustaining the resolution. Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction -- Part III, The Harvard Mental Health Letter, Volume 12, Number 4, October 1995, page 3. (See Aug. (Part I), Sept. (Part II), Oct. 1995 (Part III).) So much for the sayings that "Everybody needs a support group." and "Nobody can do it alone." Most people do. And note that the Harvard Medical School says that the support of a good spouse is more important than that of a 12-Step group. But A.A. says just the opposite: "Dump your spouse and marry the A.A. group, because A.A. is The Only Way." March 19, 2007 Book / DVD Review Great product - Well worth the price - Has helped me understand addiction and the recovery process. October 23, 2006 The Twelve Steps for Christians A source of hope and healing built on the Holy Scriptures, The Twelve Steps for Christians is a model for recovery. God's promise of comfort and peace is explicit in the biblical citations that are part of each Step. Progress to a new life is assured as the process of restoration unfolds in the light of God's love for all His children. This richly resourced book was written by people who grew up in addictive and other dysfunctional families. First-hand experience of neglect and abuse gave them insight far surpassing the intellectual and academic. The authors' personal recoveries and the development of this material came as a direct result of their lives being turned over to a Higher Power - God. The Twelve Steps for Christians emphasizes the critically important relationship between the Twelve Steps and the practice of Christianity. This is practical, workable material upon which a plan for functional life management and the establishment of loving relationships can be built. --- from book's back cover August 3, 2006 12 Steps for Christians Have purchased many of this title for a prison Bible Study group I do volunteer work with. Although I haven't personally read it, the members of the study group speak highly of it and frequently request more copies. For more The Twelve Steps for Christians reviews click here.
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