AA is negativity based.
Members of this cult wake up every morning believing that they are alcoholics, that their lives are unmanageable, and that they must turn their will and lives over to some "Higher Power" who supposedly gives them power to live through the day.
Where does this power come from, but from the very person who has no power, since the "Higher Power" is an individual member's conception of God defines this Higher Power?
AA ends up taking from people every day. They step into a life in which they have nothing, and they must live a life keeping at bay, just one step ahead of the disease.
In Christ Jesus, we are granted his gifts of righteousness and unmerited favor every day, and we are invited to keep receiving these gifts throughout our lives.
"For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5: 17)
We live by God's grace (1 Corinthians 15: 10), we enjoy all His gifts because of God's grace, and all of these things speak to our standing in Christ, for as Christ is, so are we in this world (1 John 4: 17)
AA demands, just as the law did, telling people that they had to measure up to a clear standard, yet providing no way for anyone to do that.
Under grace, in Christ, we receive the power to do all things through Christ (Philippians 4: 13), and we can trust that He will supply all our needs (Philippians 4: 19).
Jesus is all give because He gave it all for us at the Cross.
He died for all our sins, and by His blood we enter into a new, everlasting covenant, one in which He promises to be our God, in which He writes His laws on our hearts and minds, in which we receive a new spirit and He causes us to know Him intimately (Hebrews 8: 10-12)
While AA requires members to work Twelve Steps, to attend meetings, to visit alcoholics and other "down-and-out" individuals in prisons and other public institutions, Jesus Christ simply asks us to believe on Him and He takes us from dead in our trespasses to alive and seated in heavenly places with Him (John 6: 28-29; Ephesians 2: 4-6)
Because Jesus is life, and He is our life "(Colossians 3: 1-4), we are no longer living from our own efforts, trying to figure everything out and provide everything on our own.
It's all of Christ, and He has given us all things in Himself, blessing us with all spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1: 3), and causing all grace to superabound in our lives (2 Corinthians 9: 8)
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