"Who You Are", Not "What You Do!"

Any program which defines you by your illness will inevitably fail, for God did not make man to be defined or deepened in right and wrong, but rather to have life and that more abundantly (John 10: 10)

Human beings do not know who they are, and they cannot know with any value or valence without receiving the Truth that sets them free.

This Freedom, this Truth, is in Christ Jesus

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John 8: 36)

This verse Jesus speaks shortly after telling us that the Truth sets us free. Let's just look at the entire passage:

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

"They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?" (John 8: 31-33)

His Word, which is Truth (John 17: 17), sets us free, the more that we know and believe in His Word.

AA does not give us God's Word, and Celebrate Recovery confuses the Old and New Covenants, blatantly repudiating the Finished Work of Jesus Christ by assuming that we must also keep confessing our sins in order to be set free.

The more that we confess our sins, the more that we make a mockery of the work which Jesus has finished. Where do we get the idea that we have to add one thing to what Jesus has done?

The issue for too  many people is that they spend all their time attacking and trying to perfect their behavior, when the focus needs to be on God's grace, which defines who we are and empower us what to do:

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." (1 Corinthians 15: 10)

His grace defines us, His grace supplies us -- AA tells us nothing about this grace.

What we are in Christ then promotes in us His life, and He works through us:

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (Philippians 2: 12-13)