Just a brief pause in the busy post conference activities to note that three groups of Bible-quoting anti-A.A. writers have turned up the heat on their "words of fire" to prove that A.A.'s two-cofounders and A.A. Number three were not, could not have been, and never were born again Christians.
After 42 books and 675 articles documenting more and more of the facts that show the truth about the early A.A. Christians and their Christian Fellowship in Akron, the weak efforts to ignore the truth and personalize the attacks against A.A., its founders, its original Christian fellowship, its atonishing successes and cures are unceasing.
Probably the saddest part of this anti-A.A. rambling is its failure to recognize two very clear facts: (1) A.A. is not today a Christian Fellowship No more so than the United States Army in which I served, the Boy Scouts of American where I obtained my Eagle Scout badge. Nor the Rotary Club, the Almonte District Sanitary Board, the Chamber of Commerce, the Enchanted Knolls Homeowners Assn, the Stanford Law Review, and the University of California marching band in which I was a participant--often an officer and director. (2) A.A. today has tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of Christians in its fellowship and meetings all over the world-people suffering from alcoholism and addiction and much in need of the information that they can do what they early A.A.'s did - if they want God's help. They can be healed. And they need to know it. And they need to know that early AAs in Akron came to the Father through His Son Jesus Christ. And were delivered from the power of darkness.
In fact, one anti-A.A. writer John Lanagan with his redundant "Word Like Fire" and "Rapture Ready" writings took time out to write the leadership of one of the churches hosting the International Christian Recovery Coalition suggesting that the conference should not be allowed. Based, of course, on his spurious views of Alcoholics Anonymous and its Christian origins.
The more they bark, the less the bite itself. Because International Christian Recovery Coalition and its Christian recovery leaders from all over the world are showing remarkable efforts in their mission to document and report the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible played in the origins, history, foundng, original Christian fellowship program, and astonshing successes of the group Bill Wilson described as "mostly practicing Christians" even in 1945 when he was addressing Christian and other substance abuse scholars..
One could hope that the truth will make these few opponents free to pursue the truth of the Gospel and the message of First Century Christianity that so many could see and read and hear about the early A.A. pioneers with their decisions for Jesus Christ, Bible studies, prayer meetings, Quiet Times, Christian Devotionals, and Christian literature. All of which enabled the pioneers to carry the message of God's love, guidance, power and forgiveness to the suffering last-gasp alcoholics and their families in the 1930's.
Awake thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee light.
This brief interjection is not to waste time arguing with the incessant errooneous statements, but rather to encourage Christians today who are members of Alcoholics Anonymous and desperately seeking God's help to learn and know the deliverance that occurred in the 1930's and is still available today to those who want it.
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