"Alcoholic" Christians -Our Recent Post on That Subject

Thanks for your continued, temperate, reasoned comments. I believe I should mention the enormous and continuing growth of the International Christian Recovery Coalition. In colloquial terms, it is "AA friendly, Bible friendly, History friendly,and Recovery friendly." It stresses the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible have played and can play in recovery today. Almost all of the growing number of participants in the coalition are recovered former alcoholics and certainly Christians. They have long-term sobriety. They don't want to castigate A.A. or Twelve Step Fellowships. They recognize how much support they received in A.A. in their dismal, seemingly hopeless early days - days when clergy and church and Christian fellowships were not seen as welcome alternatives to A.A. Today, the scene is changing. These folks are almost universally rejecting the A.A. "wisdom of the rooms" which dotes on godless "higher powers," New Age spirituality, idolatry, and worship of the creature rather than the Creator. That is not A.A. as most of us knew it and experienced it. Nor as we participate in it today. We focus on helping others by glorifying and serving God. And we cherish the 24/7 help one can almost always get on request when the dark days plunge him into despair, hopelessness, fear, anxiety, and sometimes return to drink. It is God's ever-present availability that we emphasize. In early A.A. days, He was sought diligently, believed in completely, and accessed through His Son Jesus Christ. The standard for truth was in the Bible. And none of these factors has changed. You can be a fine, devoted child of the one true living God; find what help is available in A.A.; and place your trust in the care, love, forgiveness, healing, and deliverance of Almighty God. I did. We do. And "It works!" Dick B., Executive Director, International Christian Recovery Coalition.