Christians in AA are in Denial, about who they are in Christ

"Denial is not a river in Egypt" -- Ha! Ha!

Granted, most people in AA meeting have heard this joke. There is even a book with this title, lots of jokes about codependency, alcoholism, recovery, and those Twelve Steps with this title.

Many Christians, whether in Twelve Step meetings, Celebrate Recovery, or any other therapy programs, are in denial, too.

They are completely unsure or unaware or unwilling to step out in who they are. We are all made the righteousness of God in Christ. We are all brought into Sonship through Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit, which Jesus Christ released upon the world when He sat down at the right hand of the Father.

Most Christians are so ignorant of who they are in Christ, and the Twelve Step programs only make it worse. If we are accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1: 6), then we should start accepting that this cannot be changed.

Jesus promised us eternal life (John 3: 16), His life and that more abundantly (John 10: 10).How can we live the abundant life when we refuse to reckon ourselves dead to this body of sin which distracts us from His Spirit?

Some people are so concerned with sin, that they cannot believe "As He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)

One Bible translator and missionary was so caught up in "Celebrate Recovery", that he could not "Celebrate Righteousness" or "Celebrate Resurrection". All of this focusing on sin and inventories and "restoring fellowship" with God is an insult to all that Jesus has done, and frustrates the New Covenant:

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

"And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

He does not remember our unrighteousness, sins, and iniquities. Instead of trying to fix our feelings and our thoughts, we are to fix our eyes on Christ seated at the right hand of the Father (Colossians 3: 3-4), and from Him we keep receiving righteousness and grace (Romans 5: 17), the two gifts which cause us reign in life.

We are kings and priests before God, yet too many Christians are living in "Denial", refusing to accept that they have been baptized by the Spirit of God into the Body of Christ.