Common Sense Remains Uncommon for Those in the Nonsense

In the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, the conflicts and contradictions minister confusion.

Yet for the  men and women who are looking for a release, anything to break free of alcohol and the painful shame which it brings in its wake, they will take to heart anything that seems to work.

After attending thirty meeting in thirty days, or ninety meetings in ninety days, anyone will get hooked into the program. I mean, how could so many people be wrong about something, about anything, right?

Yet the opinions of few or many do not define truth, and no matter how many people may bind themselves to something, that does not make it true.

The nature of inquiry, the nature of science, the nature of learning, of receiving revelation lies not in how many agree or disagree, but whether the evidence demands a verdict of true.

More importantly, faith is borne in the life of the believer who hears the word of Christ (Romans 10: 17).

The law is given to stop our mouths without reserve, forcing us to accept that we need a savior, a demand on our conscience, which no amount of thinking, inquiry, or reflection can free us from.

When we resign ourselves to the truth, that we cannot measure up in our own efforts, that the opinions of man, whether few or many, do not add up to much, then we receive the grace of God by faith, and He transform us from creatures of darkness to children of light.

This common sense remains forever uncommon. The startling number of people who do not stay sober, or who do not have life and that more abundantly, all war against the plain and unshakable Truth -- the program does not work.

Sadly, those who walk and attend and never do much more than sit in the meetings cannot break free on their own. They are so convinced of who they are and what they must do to maintain sobriety, but most importantly they are brought into bondage through a program and a hierarchy which imposes on them that if they leave, if they stop going to meetings, they will start drinking again.

The whole thing is a shameful sham-scam, one that indoctrinates people into believing that they must "keep coming back"

The notion that "if they just try a little harder" or "confess something more" that they did not share beguiles people into thinking that they must settle for a life of meetings that never meet with the Truth.

The way out of the program and into life is through the truth. Going deeper than right and wrong, the matter of life and death makes all the difference. Man in his sin is dead in his trespasses, and to the degree that we accept that with God, to lust in your heart, to be angry without a cause, both touch to the heart of man, a condition which cannot be fixed by his effort, but by His grace.

Jesus Christ has paid for it all. To those believers who still labor in AA meetings, when you read the Bible, see Jesus in his fullness. See that He has done more than die for your sins -- see that He has given you His life, and through His grace and righteousness you are called to reign in life.

If you still think that you must confess every sin in order to be on "good terms" with God, then confess every sin -- every time that you are afraid, every time that you lose  your temper. When the despair of every keeping up accounts with God settles in your mind, then let the grace of God flow, flow, flow in your life!

AA is a cult, not a culture of respect or honor. The program takes more than it gives.

But I speak this not to shame you if you have received sobriety. But either Christ has died for all your sins, or he did not. There can be no mixing of the message, and God will not share his glory.