"Ken
B. speaks about the new title, Pioneer
Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous: God’s Role in Recovery Confirmed!, on the
December 29, 2012, episode of the "Christian Recovery Radio with Dick
B." show.
By Dick B.
© 2012 Anonymous. All rights reserved
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[Ken’s attention is directed
particularly to our new book just released: Personal
Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous: God’s
Role in Recovery Confirmed! The latest title is available right now in
paperback and in eBook formats on www.Amazon.com
(Kindle), and will be available any day now in a variety of eBook formats
through www.Smashwords.com (use “Dick
B.” as the search term and deactivate the “adult filter, even though these are
not “adult” books), and other regular distribution sources.]
Synopsis
of Ken B. Christian Recovery Radio Interview
Dick
B.'s son Ken talks about the new book he and his dad released this month, Pioneer
Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous: God's Role in Recovery Confirmed!
(December 2012). When Bill W. and Dr. Bob met in Akron, Ohio, on May 12, 1935
(Mother's Day), both were members of a group named "A First Century
Christian Fellowship" (also known as the Oxford Group). Bill and Bob
developed a program of recovery over the summer of 1935 which John D.
Rockefeller's agent Frank Amos summarized in seven points in February 1938.
(See DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, 131.)
As
Dr. Bob said in his last major talk: "In early A.A. days, . . . we were
convinced that the answer to our problems was in the Good Book." (See The
Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major
Talks, Item # P-53, page 13.) After Bill and Bob "counted the
noses" of those who had recovered as of November 1937, Bill was
commissioned to write a book that would present the highly-successful, original
Akron A.A. "Christian fellowship" program. (See DR. BOB and the
Good Oldtimers, 123 and 118.) Bill W., however, wrote what he called
"the new version of the program, now the 'Twelve Steps.'" (See Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, 162.)
Bill's
statement at the Rockefeller Dinner on February 8, 1940, that A.A. claimed a
75% success rate among "seemingly-hopeless,"
"medically-incurable" alcoholics who thoroughly followed their path
is mainly speaking about the original Akron program, as the Big Book had only
been published April 10, 1939. When Clarence S. founded the A.A. group in
Cleveland, which had a documented 93% success rate without relapse(!), he had
done it with "by keeping most of the 'old program,' including the Bible
and the Four Absolutes." (See Mitchell K., How It Worked, 108.) Our
new book talks about success!
[I took
the liberty of closing out Ken’s enlightening talk about God and A.A. and
mentioned the many healing books and talks and conferences that have taken
place over the years since 1850. Efforts by Christian people and organizations
such as
the great evangelists (Moody, Sankey,
Meyer, Folger), the Gospel Rescue Missions, the Salvation Army, Young Men’s
Christian Association, Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, and the
Vermont Congregational Churches. These and the Congregational churches and
academies that figured so prominently in the Christian upbringing of Bob and
Bill in Vermont were focused on employing the power they received as children
of God and helping others by serving God.
I read the following from Power to Heal: Experiencing the Miraculous, by
Joan Hunter, where she wrote:
God is not looking for your ability. He is looking for
your availability. He is not looking for superstars; He is looking for
servants. Does the Scripture say: “Well
done, good and faithful superstar”? No, it says, “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:23), page 49.]
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