AA-How to Study, Understand, and Take the 12 Steps
AA-How to Study, Understand, and Take the 12 Steps
A.A.: How to Study, Understand, & Take the 12 Steps
by Dick B.
2011 Anonymous. All rights reserved
FIRST THINGS FIRST:
The Bible;
Dr. William D. Silkworth ("The little doctor who loved drunks");
William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience);
Anne Smith (and her personal journal which she kept between 1933 and 1939);
The Oxford Group (also known as "A First Century Christian Fellowship"); and
Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr.
KEEP IT SIMPLE:
To learn about those key sources for material in the 12 Steps, I suggest you study:
Dick B., Twelve Steps for You: Let Our Creator, A.A. History, and the Big Book Be Your Guide (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2006):
The sources of the 12 Steps and the "taking" of the Steps to completion
Dick B., By the Power of God: A Guide to Early A.A. Groups & Forming Similar Groups Today (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2000):
Details for study and for study groups
Dick B., The James Club and the Original A.A. Program's Absolute Essentials (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2006):
Relating Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, the Book of James, and 1 Cor 13 to the Big Book
Three Clarence Snyder Sponsee Old-timers and Their Wives, Our A.A. Legacy to the Faith Community: A Twelve-Step Guide for Those Who Want to Believe (Winter Park, FL: Came to Believe Publications, 2005)
A 12 Step Guide for Retreats, Groups, and Individuals that also includes A.A. history
FOR: AAs, 12 Steppers, Sponsors, Speakers, Writers, Bible students, Christian recovery groups
TO ORDER:
You may read more about and order Dick B.'s titles here: http://www.dickb.com/titles.shtml
You may order the Our A.A. Legacy book here: http://www.cametobelieve.org/
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This article has as its objective the simplification of "taking" the 12 Steps by showing where they came from, why the sources help in the understanding of the Steps, how each Step can best be understood in terms of its own sources, and then "taking" the Steps with a solid purpose and understanding. This means knowing the sources. It means having simple guides that show the individual how to take the Steps, show groups how to study the steps, and prevent detours in the road that arose because of ill-conceived gossip in the rooms of the fellowships.
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