A Huge Opportunity to Serve God, Help
Others, and Improve Your Life
By Dick B.
© Anonymous 2015. All
rights reserved
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I will be 90 years
old tomorrow. (I was born May 15, 1925.)
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I have more than 29
years of continuous sobriety in A.A. (I got sober April 21, 1986.)
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I have dozens of clean,
sober, accomplished, service-oriented, new friends in recovery.
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I know thousands
of Christians in recovery.
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I encourage those
who believe or seek to believe that they—and others suffering from alcoholism
and addiction—can depend upon Almighty God for their recovery.
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I well remember
the many people who came from all over the United States and Canada to the huge
conference my son Ken and I hosted at Mariners Church Community Center in May
2009 (with tremendous help from Rev. Jim Gaffney and others) for Christians
concerned about recovery. And at that conference, Ken and I were able to describe
and report the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible play and can
play in recovery from alcoholism and addiction.
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I know many
Christian leaders and workers in the recovery arena who have become “Participants”
in the International Christian Recovery Coalition Ken and I founded in July 2009
(www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com).
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I know many
people who do not want to support any takeover of Alcoholics Anonymous by the
atheists and agnostics who are trying to exclude God from recovery or re-write a
program that will blot out the need for “Divine aid,” and obscure the facts
about what God can do for those still suffering (http://aaagnostica.org/2014/12/11/aa-without-the-god).
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I know many who have
not read or heard what Dr. Bob wrote in his Big Book story about his feeling
sorry for atheists and agnostics, followed by his asserting in the final
sentence of his personal story: “Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!”
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I continue to
reach out to all those who are friendly to each other.
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I continue to
reach out to those who believe they can help others by love and service.
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I continue to
reach out to those who grasp the fact that hatred of other beliefs or unbelief
is poisonous.
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I continue to
seek out and encourage those who are friendly to A.A. fellowships.
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I continue to
encourage groups, meetings, and participants who are friendly to any who seek
recovery from alcoholism and addiction, and want to stop the destroyers.
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I continue to
seek out and encourage people who are friendly to those in the fields of
religion, science, education, charity, medicine, and psychology—fields composed
of those who seek to help others and become informed themselves.
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I continue to
appreciate the dozens and dozens of sponsees who have asked and allowed me through
the years to help them.
There has been growing a loud
voice from opponents and destroyers of fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. Most
of you know how much you have enjoyed and profited from all the activities,
achievements, and rewards of A.A. Most believe that God can and will and does
do for suffering alcoholics and addicts what they could not do for themselves.
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Please consider
that thousands have participated in the International Christian Recovery
Coalition and its conferences. We believe the strong testimonial approach of
the original AAs is the most persuasive and effective method of standing tall
for God’s help. It allows the many who have been rebuked for mentioning God,
His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible to tell believers, other recovery
participants, and others who strongly seek to help others, to stand on the
ideas that A.A. will perish, if we forget where we came from; and that, if we do not have before us the truth that God
has the (best) solution for overcoming the problem of alcoholism, do not carry
that message to those who still suffer, the (original, highly-successful) A.A.
program will be lost.
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Please
communicate with us in any way you choose; and let us know your suggestions,
questions, and views as to how to keep God, His Son Jesus Christ and the Bible
in the same, clear, successful role that prompted millions to choose the
“old-school” A.A. program for their complete healing.
Trust
in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In
all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Prov 3:5-6 KJV)
Gloria
Deo
