Fighting Self-Centeredness: Self-Defeating Fantasy.

"Self" is such a big deal in the AA program, yet we cannot fire ourselves, now, can we?:

Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.

 (Big Book, pg. 62)

"God's help" is more than mere assistance. We need a New Life, we need to become a New Creation:

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. " (2 Corinthians 5: 17)

Jesus offers us life, and that more abudantly (John 10: 10)

Jesus Christ is our life (Colossians 3: 4), for He is within every believer, the Hope of Glory (Colossians 1: 27)

"Most good ideas are simple." -- not as simple as Christ and Him Crucified:

"But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness (1 Corinthians 1: 23)

and

"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." (2 Corinthians 11: 3)

AA is too complicated, and can do nothing about our biggest problem, that we are dead, spiritually dead, in our trespasses (Ephesians 2: 1). We need life, We need Christ.

We do not find God, for He was never lost. God has been looking for us. Open your eyes and receive Himself, and let His life reign in you:

"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

"For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

"But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (Romans 7: 4-6)

By Jesus' death on the Cross, you have a way to die to self, so to speak, and live a new life.

Any other means of fighting self-centeredness is just a self-defeating fantasy.