A Means To an End

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The last piece of commentary on STEP 12 from Life Recovery Bible program. In reference to 1 Peter 4: 1-4. "You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy-their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wicked parties...of course your former friends are very surprised when you no longer join them...etc" Our message won't be accepted by the masses. The people on the "highway to hell" won't eagerly restrict themselves to the clearly defined steps on the road to recovery. But for those who do listen, our story could be the difference between life and death for them.

AA's Back To Basics http://www.aabacktobasics.org/ final comments about the program:

"The Beginners Meetings are a means to an end. The end is a Spiritual awakening and a new way of living without alcohol. Divine guidance is the key that unlocks the door to this fourth dimension of existence.

"..cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have-the key to life and happiness for others."

The big book of AA Page 124, para. 2, lines 9-12. This AA guide is a book that embodies the original successful 12 step recovery program and we believe can be used equally well for any addiction or co-dependency (affected by contact or relationship with an addicted or ill individual)

Serenity Program P. 77 on Step 12:

"Healing our addictions or codependencies is not the goal of recovery. Rather, it is, the starting place. Certainly we have to cap our addictions and put them in balance or abstinence. But then begins the the real journey of spiritual growth. Can our lives be remade?"

Some of us find that the balance between a traditional 12 step recovery program and the study of biblical truth, go hand in hand, each enhancing the other and building the Spiritual significance of our lives to a point that neither the church nor our 12 step programs could do alone. We highly recommend this journey be taken this way with special attention always to two-way prayer as taught to the alcoholics of the 1940's where documented success rates of recovery reached 75% and beyond. See Back To Basics web address above.

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