Part Three Sobriety, Recovery, and Deliverance require a
SOLUTION: Four Approaches to the Solution that were tried:
1. For
theorists: “a vital religious experience”—language used by Professor William
James, Rev. Samuel Shoemaker, Dr. Carl Jung, and the earliest Wilson writings
themselves.
2. For those
who believed the answers were in the Bible—“the Good Book”:
a. Believe God,
confess Jesus as Lord (Hebrews 11:6; John 14:6; Rom 10:9-10), learn the truth
(John 8:31-32), God’s will – Thy will be done! (1 Tim 2:4)
b. The Book of
James—the favorite:
i. Resisting
temptation;
ii. Asking
God’s guidance, without wavering;
iii. “Doing” the
Word;
iv. Love;
v. Royal
law—“Love thy neighbor as thyself;”
vi. Works
required;
vii. Submit to
God;
viii. Resist the
Devil;
ix. Humbly
asking the Lord’s help
x. Praying
(James 5:16)
xi. Confess
faults;
xii. Heal
c. The Sermon
on the Mount—the underlying spiritual philosophy of A.A.—as both Bill W. and
Dr. Bob put it.
i. Reconciliation
and amends;
ii. Forgiveness;
iii. Love;
iv. Thy will be
done;
v. Put God
first;
vi. Judge not,
that ye be not judged;
vii. Do unto
others as you would have them do unto you.
d. 1 Cor 13:
the renewed mind principles of love to live by
3. The stated
path to the solution: to find or rediscover God (as it was phrased in the
Multilith Edition)
a. “Old-School”:
i. The first
three—Abstained; Asked God’s help; helped others; were cured,
ii. The seven
point “Christian technique” in Akron—DR. BOB, 131;
iii. The 16
practices—See “Stick with the Winners”
b. Bill’s “new
version of the program”:
i. Lack of
power to overcome the problem
ii. Must “find”
God;
iii. 12 Steps to
the solution—10 were Oxford Group ideas;
iv. ABC’s;
v. Biblical
language (Creator, Maker, Heavenly Father, Thy will be done, Love thy neighbor)
and helpful Christian books
4. The agreed
solution—a vital religious experience (Big Book, page 25)
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