AA Frustrates the New Covenant -- Jesus Establishes it

It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. "How can I best serve Thee - Thy will (not mine) be done." These are thoughts which must go with us constantly. We can exercise our will power along this line all we wish. It is the proper use of the will. (AA, pg 85)

"We must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities."

Really?

That demand challenged me to no end. How was I supposed to know God's will? What did this declaration mean?

Such frustrations coincided with the Third Step of the AA cult, which impressed on me to turn my will and life over to a power greater than myself.

How does anyone do that? What does it mean?

All of these questions are never answered, because in effect there is no answer.

The whole AA program is dedicated to keeping people dependent to a program, a religious circus in which members go around and around trying to perfect themselves, when what they need, what we all need is life, and that more abundantly (John 10: 10)

How many times I would hear from members about their loneliness, their emptiness, their frustrationsin AA and Celebrate Recovery meetings.

Such a sad sight, and the AA cult perpetuates this dullness, this gray existence in which life is merely about staying one step ahead of the next drink.

Jesus is the better way, unlike the hollow, deceptive, and evil pronouncements in the Alcoholics Anonymous Book:

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14: 6)

Jesus has cut a New Covenant for us at the Cross, and the details of this New Covenant have not been preached enough:

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10For 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:

11And 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.

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

 

The New Covenant allows God to live within us by His Holy Spirit and permit Him to write His law on our hearts and minds. In effect, we receive a new spirit. He leads us from within, He works within us both to will and to do for His good pleasure (Philippians 2: 12-13). The safety-valve which prevents people from entering into a life of sin is the enforcing clause of this New Covenant:

 

He is merciful to our unrighteousness! He has paid for all our sins forever. We need never look at ourselves in order to measure up in our efforts, but rather He causes us to know Him intimately, and by His Spiri, by Christ Jesus living in us, we are more than overcomers." (Romans 8: 37)

 

Yet AA frustrates this New Covenant because the program teaches people to mindful of their sins, and to confess them and atone for them with amends.

 

There is no amendment we can perform which can rival, efqual, or egven accomodate

 

Nothing. In fact, to the degree that we continue to try in our efforts to be righteous, we frustrate God's New Covenant of grace, we fall, and we then entertain sin in our lives!

 

How terrible is that! Yet Bill W., I am convinced. was banking on just that kind of cyclical wandering/wondering so that people would "keep coming back" to his evil program.

 

Shame on AA. In Christ, you are not an alcoholic, you are definitely not anonymous, because He knows every hair on your head! He gives us all things in His Son. Your "job" is to believe on Him (John 6: 29) and receive from Him all things (Romans 8: 31-32)