AA - Never Growing Up

The men and women in this program feel compelled to run their lives by other people. They never grow, they never grow up, because they have not learned that in the Scripture God invites us to be his little children.

"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

"That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;" (Ephesians 4: 13-14)

The Twelve Steps, with the nonsense that men and women must run their lives by other people in order to live their lives, is a glaring wave of doctrine which is wafting people away from the simplicity that is in Christ (2 Corinthians 11: 3).

The Twelve Steps are steps that take a man nowhere towards life and that more abundantly, but by creating a set of steps and rules, man will discover that the harder he tries, the worse off he is, especially in the program of AA.

How can we expect anyone to "grow up" if they are bombarded with the erroneous notion that they must run their lives by a series of steps and sponsor?

The whole model is flawed, from top to bottom.