About I Love AA

Me: At the time (12 years ago) sober for 7 years without ever experiencing relapse, applying the Steps to my life and practicing principles in all of my affairs as best as I was able, thanks to God "as I understood Him". A lifelong skeptic regarding Christianity, at 7 years sober I experienced what I can only describe as a face-to-face with Jesus Christ, which truly launched me into the "fourth dimension" which Bill referred to in the Big Book. I didn't want to know Jesus, but I did what Bill said to do in the Big Book: "Be sure to see where religious people are right" and don't have contempt toward things of a Spiritual nature. Practicing the 11th Step on a daily basis resulted in my coming to Christ, which led me to a Christian sponsor (Chuck B., RIP), who pointed me to Dick B.'s website, which contains the truth about early AA, how it really worked back then, why it was so successful that they wrote a book about it and why it was so much more successful than it is today.

No one in AA told me the truth about early AA, about their reliance on the Bible, that the 12 Steps were all gleaned from the Bible, that the first more than 100 people all said the Sinner's Prayer and gave their lives to Christ and that they did Bible studies each week and read Scriptural devotions every morning. No one in AA ever told me the truth about how AA started and why it was so much more successful then than it is today.

Now I know. Now you know. Praise the Lord for revealing the truth to all of us, whether we wanted to know it or not.

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And in conclusion

Fat chance. A founding member of On & On Anon, this isn't about to conclude anytime soon. Spiritual living in recovery is alive and active. The only guarantee in this life is that things are going to change. Hallelujah. (For our secular friends, "Hallelujah" means "Praise the Lord!")