AA Makes You Work for What God Freely Gives

 "Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them." (AA, pg 84)

The Promises sound great in the Big Book. Who wouldn't want to have peace and freedom from fear?

Yet the AA cult does not deliver on those promises. In fact, with all the demands that people work and keep working to realize those promises in their lives, they spiral into a despair of hating themselves all the more.

No one will find peace in constantly, frequently taking their "inventory."

What good is there if people spend their whole lives looking at their sins?

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (John 8:32)

God gave us His Own Son!

And Paul could not make it clearer: He freely gives us all things with His Son!

"Freely" implies that you do not earn it, work for it, strive for it.

Yet AA says "work for them."

At the very least, don't give me this lie that Christians can work a program in AA and get where they need to go.

It's either AA or Christ Jesus. But it cannot be both.

When We Feel Bad, That Does Not Mean We Need to Do Something More

This bad habit of mind is coming to a delightful end.

How true it is, that so many Christians find themselves wandering in the wilderness of self-effort for so long. Satan cannot "un-save" us, so the next best thing is to busy us with ridiculous, antiquated, unneeded additional demands to be "accepted" before Daddy God.

But Paul could not be clearer about our already-achieved accepted status before God:

"To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." (Ephesians 1:6)

We have already been accepted, highly favored, in Christ Jesus.

There is nothing more that I need to do in my mind, in my thoughts, feelings, emotions to be accepted before Him.

I have already become the righteousness of God in Christ because of what Jesus did at the Cross. Nothing could be more clear or emphatic in the Scriptures.

And yet, there was this ridiculous habit of mind, that every time I felt that fiery dart of condemnation in the back of my mind, it meant that I was missing something, that I needed to do something more or change something, or think something different.

Every bad memory, every fiery dart, required a different response, a different set of thinking.

As the Holy Spirit has continued to transform me from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18), I realize now that there is nothing I have to do about any of the upsets or hardships or bad feelings which I may feel in the back of my head or in the front of my forehead.

The work is done, folks. Jesus paid for it all, Jesus did it all, and when He shouted out "It is Finished," He was not kidding or exaggerating.

If you suddenly feel bad for whatever reason, it really does not matter. There is nothing more to be done, there is no further need to play mind games to get your head back in place. Jesus Finished the Work. AMEN!

When I Failed, I Would Condemn Myself

This mindset of condemnation was rife in my life.

If I failed, I would condemn myself. If things did not work out as I hoped they would, I would condemn myself.

If people harmed me or messed with me, and I did not fight back appropriately (because in many cases I did not know what to do or feared the retaliation), I would condemn myself.

Where did all this condemnation come from?

It started with Alcoholics Anonymous (the main culprit on this blog).

Wow, it is getting harder and harder to dispute the fact: Alcoholics Anonymous is a cult.

I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but WOW the evidence just keeps mounting. I mean, I have been convinced that AA is a cult for a long time, but this article really solidifies some things.

The whole program teaches people to look at "resentment" in their lives. If someone harmed us, we look at the harm ... then this terrible program tells people to ask themselves "What was your part in it?"

This is really evil.

If someone was abused as a kid, that is NOT the kid's fault! But the AA cult makes you think that bad things happen to you, and for some reason it was your fault, too. "What was your part in it?"

That's outrageous!

All of this comes into play when I consider what happened to someone close to me so many years ago. This person was raped at UCLA during her first year in college. The creep was arrested, convicted, and sentenced.

However, it sure sounds as though that person never really got over it, and she lived her whole life making sure that no one ever harmed her again.

I have a feeling that this person never got over the harm done to other -- and then she started drinking over that shame and abuse.

Then she gets into AA, and now she has this bigger lie hanging over her head: "It was your fault that you got raped!"

Of course, she needed to learn to be wise not to let some guy go into her dorm. But a lack of wisdom is NEVER an excuse for someone to harm us! NEVER!

We should never condemn ourselves when bad things happen to us, even if we didn't exercise proper discretion or wisdom in a situation.

This revelation really shines the light on so many things.

About ten years ago, when I was in deeper condemnation, someone pointed out to me that I had a strong, heavy habit of blaming myself when things would not work out well. If it started raining, and I didn't bring my umbrella with me that day, I would be hard on myself, whereas most people would just go "Oops, I forgot to bring my umbrella."

This terrible cult induces people into a trap of relentless, never-ending condemnation. If you suffered trauma, abuse, or harm, this terrible cult tells you that it is YOUR fault, too. That is a total lie. No one can ever be set free from harm and wrong-doing in their lives if they take the blame for everyone else.

If you were abused as a kid, it is not your fault.

If your spouse used or abused you, it is not your fault.

If your parents walked out on you, it is not your fault.

If we do things wrong, then we do need to be held accountable for that. But the notion that people have a right to wrong us for any reason, that is unfounded and unconscionable.

I feel so set free as I write this information, this revelation out for the world. We need to stop telling people from condemning themselves every time they fail. We need to stop teaching people that bad things happened to them, and it was their fault fully or even partially.

It's time to stop laying fault on people when they fail, when they lack wisdom, when they lack discretion, when they make a mistake that puts them in a bad place. No one has a right to do wrong to us.

And for that reason, we have every right to reject the many wrongs of the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous.