Nor Sit in the Seat of the Scornful

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." (Psalm 1: 1)

I was surprised by the full translation of the word "scornful" in the original Hebrew:

luts: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker

Original Word: לִיץ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: luts
Phonetic Spelling: (loots)
Short Definition: ambassador

Imagine that. The concept of mockery or scorn carries with it a sense of separation, of distance.

When people shame us, they give off the impression that we are separated, that we cannot understand them, or that they cannot understand us.

The truth is, furthermore, that people today who claim that we cannot receive God's grace and presence in our lives without them is also mocking us, as well as God Himself, for He now lives in us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Alcoholics Anonymous, like many cults, and all too many traditional churches, has communicated the evil lie that men and women still must go through a church official, a priest, or someone who has more knowledge of the Bible than other people.

That was precisely the scam which the Pharisees had been perpetrating against the Jewish people during Jesus' day:

"47Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. 48If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. " (John 11: 47-48)

How evil is that?! The religious leaders of Jesus's day wanted to keep God in the Temple, in the Holy of Holies, while God in the Flesh went about doing good and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil (Acts 10: 38)

When I took another look at this verse, I began to realize that I endured a great deal of mockery in  my life, in that I kept thinking that I had to go through someone else, in many cases my own mother, in order to get to God, in order that nothing would prevent me from Him.

Alcoholics Anonymous blocks people from the gracious truth of God in Christ by slamming on members a false identity. How can anyone come boldly to the throne of grace if they believe that they have to work Twelve Steps in order to maintain themselves in spiritual fitness?

Self-Righteousness in Every Form -- Lack of Life in Christ

There is so much talk about ego, self, self-centeredness in Alcoholics Anonymous.

Yes, it's true, self without any boundaries is the source of the greatest pain in our lives.

Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. (AA, pg 62)

One of the most painful aspects of most cults, like AA, is that the incorporate some truths, some truth, some proper insight.

Yes, life which we try to produce in ourselves will never be enough. Never.

Still, the AA program actually magnifies self, rather than breaking us free from dead in our trespasses Adam

"I" unchecked can cause us to check into hospitals, or to check out of this life. Yet a program which claims "we" still brings us back to ourselves.

In ever meeting, men and women will say "My name is X, and I am an alcoholic."

There's that "I" once again.

As I have written before, many members of the program will proudly share "This is a selfish program." Exactly. But I thought that self manifested in various forms was the problem?

Once again, AA like many cults, does not resolve the problem of self.

And our modern times have made the path of freedom from ourselves, or more specifically our flesh, all the more difficult by dismissing any need for God, for Christ, for His life which makes everything abundant and worthwhile in our lives.

How can we not focus on ourselves, unless we believe that God has pledged, through His Son, that He is taking care of all things for us? I have pondered this issue at length. Even when I realized, as do many, that living in ourselves and for ourselves is never enough, yet if we do not understand and receive that He is our life, then we have no choice but to resort back to ourselves.

Now we step into AA. What do we find? The most mixed of mixed messages. Yes, we need to reborn, but as an alcoholic, which is just Adam of a different kind. We need power, but at the same time people have to work Twelve Steps every day. In other words, this power comes from us.

We are supposed to turn our will and lives over to God the Father, yet at the same time, we have no life to give, but rather we need life, and that more abundantly. To me, that is the greatest falsehood, and the biggest problem with Twelve Steps sits on that outrageous third step.

We are supposed to turn our will and lives over to a Higher Power, a Higher Power which we have conceived in our minds. Really? Does anyone see how crazy this is?

Yet for me, for years, and for many people who still go to the AA meeting rooms, they have this idea that they can work this program, then trust some God to see them through al the challenges in their life.

The struggle to understand the loving, living Almighty God living in and through me never made any sense. How could I believe that He was taking care of everything for me, when the god I understood was just a projection of what someone else told me.

And what's worse, our feelings and our thoughts do not go away, right away. The more that we try to live and strive in our efforts, the more we find that we cannot get away from ourselves or our feelings.

The worst part for me, and for many Christians I fear, is that we do not see how big, how powerful, how wonderful, He is, and that He wants us to receive from Him, since of ourselves we have nothing can do nothing:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3: 16)

and then

"I 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: 5)

and
1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3: 1-4)

and how about this?

"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him." (1 John 4: 9)

So, what is self-righteousness, really? It's so much more than thinking highly of ourselves at the expense of other people. It's also thinking that the most important things that we must do depend on us, or that apart from major miracles, we can do most other things in our own efforts.

Self-righteousness is more than doing bad things, but doing good things in our strength, and believing that what we are doing is enough. When we feel bad, we think that we have to do something about it. When we feel good, we think that we have something to do with that, too.

Wrong.

The truth is that the Tree of Life is what everyone of us, you, me, everyone else, needs. We need life, and that more abundantly, which we receive and keep receiving in Christ Jesus. It's all about His goodness and grace, not our own.

To receive His life, we need to receive His righteousness:

"And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." (Romans 8: 10)

and before this, Paul writes:

"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)

The dichotomy is death and life, and with life God grants to us the gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace. Righteousness is the key element, and not our own, but His:

"14In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

"15Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

 

"16Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

 

"17No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." (Isaiah 54: 14-17)

We give up our righteousness, all filthy rags (Isaiah 64: 6) and so we readily receives His righteousness, and thy we reign in life through His life!

Emotional Dependence Cripples People

I was so dependent on the thoughts and feelings of other people.

Growing up, we need to wean ourselves from other people.

There has to be emotional independence, that is, we stop depending on other people to make us feel bad, good, or anything else.

Through Scripture, we find that milk is for little children, and real meat is for adults.

Milk is for believers who are not trained in righteousness by faith:

"12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." (Hebrews 5: 12-14)

This passage also outlines that we need to depend on a God who is greater than our understanding, and just about everything else:

"I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety." (Psalm 4: 8)

This passage has made a great difference in my understanding. I have begun to learn why there were so many struggles in my life.

For too long, I was running to someone else to make all my decisions, to give me a sense of peace and safety in my life.

If I was afraid, I would run to someone. If I was angry, or sad, or anything else, I lived my life from the perspective that I had to do something about how I felt in order to thrive and be safe.

Such emotional dependence is quite crippling, and such emotional dependence is inevitable in Alcoholics Anonymous.

How can it be otherwise, with or without abusive parents, sponsors, or even the best group which encourages independence and grace?

A program which claims that you can choose your own conception of God, yet at the same time tells you that you are insane, an alcoholic, and that "your best thinking brought you" to the rewmz, is hardly a recipe for critical thinking and emotional independence.

A life in which one must continue to watch for self-centeredness, resentment, fear, and all the rest becomes a life of frustration, pain, and never-ending self-centeredness, filled with resentment and fear.

I cannot tell you how long I lived in pain, trying to get someone else to comfort me, because I had been deceived so much into thinking that I could not think, that I could not trust what I was feeling or not feeling.

I look back on the last five to six years, and just marvel at God's grace, in spite of all the nonsense, the distortions, the mixture of law and grace, and every other unsightly lie which I had succumbed to in my life.

Emotional dependence cripples people and very badly, but thanks be to God and His Son Jesus, that the truth sets me free!

We have to be free of anger, resentment, fear, and all other emotions. We try to seek emotional balanced

The Tragedy of Psychotherapy in Modern Times

Since when did anyone get the idea that they were supposed to be happy?

More importantly, since when did anyone get the idea that anything in this life can grant us life, joy, peace?

I blame the modern Enlightenment, which aside from the physical sciences, did not enlighten man's understanding of the truth or the universe, but rather occluded it.

Modern thinkers, whether Kant, Hume, or even the Physiocrats of the Romantic era until the end of the nineteenth century, placed a greater premium on man's feelings and understanding of the universe, as opposed to starting from the proper foundation: God.

When we attempt to understand anything from our limited perspective, we create pain and frustration for ourselves. The world does not revolve around us. It can't, since the world has been around long before we were born, and will remain here even after we die.

There are limitations to our knowledge, to our awareness. We may feel or think certain prejudices, yet the results and consequences which play out in our lives do not measure up right away with what we are thinking.

Yet from the modern Enlightenment of the late eighteenth century until today, we have taken the initial point of knowledge away from Him who has been from the Beginning, and replaced knowledge and understanding with what we know as true.

Anything which runs against our current understanding, we reject or attack vehemently.

Happiness and mental well-being has become a greater problem in our culture, not because of a growing supply of knowledge, but rather the humanistic basis of ourselves and our experience as the final arbiter of anything true or worthwhile.

We were created by God, our loving Father, and He has demonstrated His love for us through His Son, and His death on the Cross.

This love, this grace, this wonderful joy, is greater than human feelings and hopes. We need the Divine in our lives to make up for the lack in our flesh and in our present times.

Yet if we discontinue Christ and Him Crucified, if we dispute the truth of God and His wonder in this world, then we will always face a gnawing emptiness in our experience. We were made for high and holy things, not for crude elements and matters of little value.

We were not made for this fallen world, but for something far greater, infinite.

As long as men and women continue to look to their efforts, their hopes, and their small dreams.

In modern times, since man presumes himself sufficient unto himself, he has turned away from the one source of life and peace, and instead embraced what he or other people can come up with, or create.

Man is now greatly unhappy, restless, irritable, discontented, because he wants to create life, joy, and peace through his own limit means, yet finds that no matter what he does, it's not good enough.

It's never going to be good enough.

Jesus has come, and serves us evermore, as a High Priest Forever, that we may have his life, and that more abundantly.

He did not come to please our empty flesh, in which we can find no good thing, in which we can find no rest or solace. He is our life, and in Christ we can reign in life, as opposed to deign in death.

Yet to this day, people seek self-improvement. They want to rely on their efforts, instead of receiving His grace. How can they, if they do not believe in God, or in the God of the Bible, one who cares about us more than we care about ourselves?

And so, church-going folks go to counselors and psychiatrists, looking for answers, hoping for something better to bring some joy and worth into their miserable lives. We have made our happiness the most important value, yet never realize that we cannot earn or fight for it, but rather we receive it, along with all other things, as a gift which God our Father gives us through His Son.

It's so difficult for us to rest and receive from Him. I am admitting this truth even now, having grown up in a religious home where forms and traditions took greater precedent over knowing Him in the Scriptures. I went to the counselors, the therapists, the psychiatrists, convinced that whatever was bothering me was something that I could fix with the right amount of Bible reading and thinking and doing.

No!

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3: 18)

This lesson has been one of the most difficult. Rest and receive His grace, which shapes me to be more like Him, and this through His Holy Spirit and as I behold Jesus -- Savior and Friend -- in the Bible!

Wow! So easy, and yet for someone like me and many others, who have been raised in the modern therapy self-help culture, we still think that the imperfections in our lives can be changed or reduced or fixed with some effort on our part.

Thank you, Jesus, for revealing to me the power of this wonderful verse in 3 John:

"Beloved, I wish above al things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy sol prospereth." (3 John 2)

How about that! God wants us to prosper more than we do! I am still trying to get my head around this wonderful truth.

What has taken me so long? Self-righteousness, born of the notion not that I think that I am just wonderful compared to others, but that I can make myself better through my own efforts.

Give me a break! You might be thinking.

I would agree with you, except that I was raised in the AA cult, which taught me to look to myself and rely on my efforts not to be bored, frustrated, resentful, et cetera.

AA is one example of the tragedy of psychotherapy in our modern times, where many people have fooled themselves into thinking that they can understand God from their perspective, make sense of the hardships and pains in their lives, and thus rely on their efforts to do well.

If I felt bad, I needed to do something about it, rather than rest and let His supply flow. I am so grateful for the Gospel of Grace revolution touching every corner of the globe. His greater glory is to found in our doing more, but our seeing more of Him.

And seeing more of Him who has been from the beginning has nothing to do with how we feel, but how much of Him we see by grace through faith.

This lesson has been easy and difficult at the same time, but I thank God for the times and tragedies nonetheless which have taught me the importance of taking everything easy, because He is taking everything on His shoulders.

Thanks for reading, everyone, who has found this blog useful and helpful. There is the Best Way, not just a better way, in all that Christ Jesus has done. Do not settle for what little you know in your experience, but trust in His fullness to see you through all things.

Keep coming to the Word of God. He works, if you let Him!

We Are Not Alone in This Life -- He is Our Life

We are not alone in this life. This life is not something which we strive to live in our own efforts.

This life is all about a Person who loves us, and loves us perfectly and passionately. This Person, Jesus Christ, not only gave Himself on the Cross to die for us, but also gives of Himself every day that we may live through Him (1 John 4: 9)

The hardship for me for so long, was this idea that I had to do everything, have everything, be everything, figure everything out.

The whole word, so it seemed, rested on my shoulders. I had no idea, none whatsoever, that Jesus Christ did not merely come to break me free of my sins, but of sin in the flesh, and moreover to live out his life in my flesh. These are different dynamics entirely, many of which I had not known, and which created for me untold frustration and pain.

Every day, I was trying to fix my thinking and feeling in such a fashion, so that I would know and believe that God would be working in my life. I was trying in my own efforts to do everything myself. There can be no hope of joy when we do not know whether He is going to be there to catch us, to hold us, to see us through or not.

And how carnal I was, too. I believed that I had to feel a certain way so that I knew that He was there for me. What bondage that created.

The pain of going around and around to keep myself in line. The need to feel a certain way to do anything: all of it was just unbearable.

The pain of living, and the reason why the wisest of men, Solomon, ended up hating life, is that they were trying to find life in themselves, when nothing good dwells in our flesh (Romans 7:18)

We need life, and that more abundantly, all of which are loving Father provides freely or us through His Son and the Holy Spirit to live and thrive in us.

We are not alone in this life, and this loneliness in our lives will not go away if we try to find life in anything besides life Himself: Jesus!

We cannot work Twelve Steps to find the fun and frolic of His love working in and through us. There is just no other way. None.

I grieve for the many who insist on the way of Cain, who want to improve themselves through their efforts, including the Twelve Steps, believing that Jesus' Work on the Cross was enough to save them from death to life, and yet is not enough to save them from day to day every day of our walk on this earth.

The more that we accet that we can do nothing without Him, the more that we will experience peace in our lives. And the more that we will know and believe that we are not alone in this life, because this life is not ours, but His, and a gift which He keeps giving us, too!

AA "Works" Only To Do Worse

First of all, I am not contradicting prior posts.

Alcoholics Anonymous does not work. The failure rate is staggering, disappointing, and disturbing. Teaching people to identify with their failings, then switching them to a program of religious fanaticism is not recovery. To walk around with shame and frustration about one's past, and a present fear of slipping back into bad habits and thinking, is not life and that more abundantly.


Yet there is that three-to-five percent group who do get sober in AA, in that they stop drinking. And there are those people who hang on for a year or two, only to get drunk again. And don't get me started on the many people who slip a drink or two, but continue to attend meetings and claim continuous sobriety notwithstanding.

So, what about those people who do get sober? Doesn't that prove that the program works?

Not really.

Man has a greater need than not behaving badly. He needs life, and that more abundantly (John 10: 10)

He certainly does need deliverance from self, or more specifically, his flesh:

"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." (Romans 7: 18)

And yet what does AA do? Teach people to identify with their flesh ("I am an alcoholic"), and then try to keep it in check. Never can work, or can work only if people switch to another addiction.

You see, Adam and Eve at from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good as well as evil. Alcoholism is a picture of the evil, but then people give up the overt perversions in their lives, only to start eating from the good, and still they are dead, still they fail, and still they produce sin and death in their lives.

So, even though we stop doing bad things, we are not free from the sin in our flesh by trying to do good. We need to receive His life and His grace in our lives. We need to be delivered from self, yes, but more importantly we need something, or rather, Someone better: Jesus!

Yes, AA does have a record that AA "works", in that a few people stop drinking. But even members who insist on sitting and wasting their time in the rewmz will admit that people have living problems, not just drinking problems. We have to go further. We need Life, and that Life is a Person: Jesus!

AA may help some peope to stop frinking, but the bitterness and emptiness in people's lives do not go away. Men and women still find that there is nothing to propel them through from day to day. In meetings, you will meet bitter people who are still angry about what their parents did to them, about the jobs they have to work. I remember one woman sharing that she would walk into a room full of glass, and break everything just to get over some rage in her life. This is not healthy, this is not good, this is not life, and that is not recovery in any way, shape, or form. "White knuckling" is all too prominent in AA meetings. How is this life? How is all this embittered self-centeredness of any value?

It's not enough to stop eating evil. We also need to get away from the good, that is the lie that there is any good in our efforts, in ourselves, in our flesh. Christ is all in all, and we are called to rest in Himself and His Goodness.

Any conception of God merely projects our weakness into Him.

 Let God through Christ take you (and al of us) up in His loving arms and live and bless us in all things.

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!