Everything is Done -- AA Lies

The revelation of God's grace is too much for me not to write about.

And it have given me the perfect platform to blast Alcoholics Anonymous as well as another other religion or cult following which brings men back into bondage to rules, rudiments, and regulations.

If we labor under any set of rules, we will find ourselves ruled by guilt and shame, rather than rest and peace.

The Twelve Steps is a treadmill in which a man walks all over himself, and then is expected to get up and try again, only to find that by working the program to the best of his ability, he just walks all over himself even more.

Dr. Genita Petralli blasted this cult precisely because the whole mandate pressed on people a false identity, one which cripples a person, and casts a negative pallor on everything that a man does.

Imagine waking up every day, learning that all you have is a daily reprieve, one in which you may or may not drink, and that in order to avoid slipping, you have to exercise such steep, dire diligence.

Is it any wonder that individuals get so depressed in AA, and that the suicide is so high, yet remains unreported?

Everything is done for us in Christ -- we live a life of rest from the inside, no longer striving for holiness in our efforts, but allowing His life to burst out through us.

We do need a new identity, one in which God is our Father, and we are His Children. Yes, the AA book talks about seeing God as our Father, and no one should disregard the importance of this truth. One of the reasons why this cult has been so effective is that the program incorporates some truth into it.

Yet there can be no mixture between law and grace. Either we believe that Jesus did it all, or He did nothing at all. We cannot assume that once Jesus died on the Cross, the our actions and thoughts can finish what He declared was already Finished.

It is not the rules of men, or the force of government, but the grace of God which makes us holy, righteousness, and good:

"11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." (Titus 2: 11-14)

Because we are saved by grace through faith, let us also receive this truth, that everything we have is by grace, not of ourselves, and thus we have nothing to boast about.

"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 works more, does more than anything that we can do in our flesh, in ourselves, in our efforts. And that includes the empty, inane, and ultimately immoral Twelve Steps.

Not what we do for God, but what God has done for us in His Son. When we understand what He has done, and what He is still doing for us (our high priest, ministering on our behalf after the power of an endless life (Hebrews 7: 16)