A Great Concern for the Body of Christ

AA cannot complement Alpha and Omega

Alcoholics Anonymous is a cult.

Contrary to the AA Book's assertion that the Twelve Steps is a simple program, nothing could more wrong.

In fact, the Twelve Steps creates complications and difficulties, as well as bringing men and women into bondage to the rudimentary elements of the world:

"8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily" (Colossians 2: 8-9)

and

"1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." (2 Corinthians 11: 1-3)

The serpent deceived Eve and then Adam by giving them the impression that God was holding out on them, and that their understanding of their needs and power was more important that God's take on everything.

The Devil diminished God's goodness, then lied to the first man and woman by making them believe that their understanding, their conception of God is right, and that they needed to know right and wrong for themselves.

So, we find that the basic premises of the Twelve Step program is a total fraud. The teaching of AA run so contrary to the truth who sets us free, that we should not compromise and permit Alcoholics Anonymous or the heinous teachings connected with this terrible program in churches.

Yet in many churches, pastors and preachers have no problem with Twelve Step support  groups meeting on their campuses. This is a great evil, and a terrible wrong.

I have to ask this question: why is  this happening? Why is it that we find so many churches, many church people permitting this cult in their churches?



Christ Jesus: The Way, the Truth, the Life
And all that We Need, and All that Is!

I submit that because men and women do not rightly divide the word, they do not understand the harsh demands of the Old Covenant, and the greater, better, eternal promises of the New Covenant, that many people still see Jesus as a Savior from death to life, but they do not understand that Jesus sends His life to live in us, and guide us in all that we do.

People have not reckoned themselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ (Romans 6:11)

They still think that they can, or that they must live this life in their own strength.

What did Jesus say to His disciples:

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10: 10)

and

"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)

and

"4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (John 15: 4-5)

Jesus was not splitting hairs or waxing metaphorical. We need life, ever since Adam ate from the forbidden tree, and thus brought sin and death into the human race:

"15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Genesis 2: 15-17)



Bill W. should have been
placed in a jail cell

 

The LORD God gave man everything that he would need and much more, yet in order for Adam to have freedom, he had to have a choice, and thus the LORD provided one tree that was good, but not for man. The consequence for eating from that tree -- death upon death.

Yet with that choice, came man's decision to disobey:

"6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." (Genesis 3: 6-7)

Notice that they did not physically die, right away. Their eyes were opened to themselves, and they immediately saw lack, shame, and reproach which had to be covered. As long as we continue to look to ourselves, even though we acknowledge God as our salvation from death to life; yet as long as we look to ourselves to live this life on earth in ourselves, we will find ourselves looking at ourselves, and finding that we never measure up. A life of trying to fix or perfect ourselves does not end.

Many people in churches have been told that they are dead in Christ, and alive in Christ, seated at the Father's right hand (Ephesians 2:4-6). We do not need a better start to run a race in our strength. We need a growing revelation of God's grace in our lives, that He is living, not us, and that He is performing great works of grace and peace in our lives, and that He wants us to walk in His work (Ephesians 2: 10)

I have a growing concern for the Body of Christ today, because too many pastors are giving the impression that they are called to live obedient lives in their own efforts. They bring back the Ten Commandments, with the false notion that those laws were designed for us to live by. They are a ministration of death and condemnation. If we do not want to sin, we need to receive His grace, His favor in our lives, not more rules and regulations, or Twelve Steps, to make ourselves better.

Too many people in the Body of Christ simply do not understand that they are in Christ. They believe that they are supposed to live this life in their efforts. That they must establish how they think and feel, that they must get some idea in their own thinking and feeling to figure out what to do.

This is wrong. Yet if Christians do not understand the fullness of Christ, they will inevitably look for steps, programs, ideas, people, places, things to help them improve their flesh, their status, their dead bodies, when only the Spirit can quicken us.

I write this once again: Twelve Steps, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Celebrate Recovery have no place in the Body of Christ, and churches which proclaim with boldness the truth of God's Word should not allow self-help programs on their premises. Cast out the bondwoman, pastors, and Bill W.'s false cult! Christ and Him Crucified is all we need!