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Have You Been Playing a Role in the Life of an Alcoholic or Addict?
Though it may be hard to admit it, do you think you could (intentionally or not) be playing a role in the life of an alcoholic or addict?
What is this role?
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Daily Inventory
When we retire at night, we constructively review our day.
Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest, or afraid?
Personality Characteristics of Self Will – Personality Characteristics of God's Will
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Review of My Own Sex Conduct
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Joe &Charlie Workshop – Handout – Work Sheets – Page 4 Review of Resentments COLUMN 1 COLUMN 2 COLUMN 3 COLUMN 4 COLUMN 5 I Am Resentful At: I list people, institutions or principles with whom I am angry. USE YOUR OWN PAPER TO RESPOND The Cause: I ask myself why
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Joe & Charlie Workshop – Handout – Work Sheets – Page 3 Basic Instincts of Life Which Create Self Social Instinct Security Instinct Sexual Instinct Companionship: Wanting to belong or to be accepted. Prestige: Wanting to be recognized or to be accepted as a leader. Self-Esteem: What we think of ourselves, high or low. Pride:
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STEP 4 Inventory Comparison Business Personal FACT-FINDING FACT-FACING TRUTH STOCK-IN-TRADE < — > < — > < — > < — > SEARCHING FEARLESS MORAL OURSELVES OBJECT: DISCLOSE DAMAGED OR UNSALABLE GOODS < — > FIND FLAWED THINKING PROCESS GET RID OF THEM PROMPTLY WITHOUT REGRET < — > GET RID
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Joe & Charlie Workshop – Handout – Work Sheets – Page 1 WHAT IS THE SOLUTION ? Fellowship supports us. Spiritual experience or spiritual awakening changes us. OLD MEMBER…supports through experience-> OLD MEMBER…supports through strength- – > OLD MEMBER….supports through hope- – – – > A Fellowship of those who suffer the same
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The following are quotes from the book Alcohlics Anonymous (also known as The Big Book).
“Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.” Big Book, page 164
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Proverbs 20:10 NRSV
Even children make themselves known by their acts,
by whether what they do is pure and right.
Known by their acts. We are not who we say we are; we are who we show we are. The Lord Jesus taught that “either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.” Matthew 12:33 NRSV
The idea of fruit is used in scripture to depict behavior that comes from the spirit. (Did you know that all behavior comes from a spirit?) And what’s interesting is that Galatians 5 begins the discussion about behavior with this verse:
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After the fall, Adam began to explain to God how he was ashamed and afraid because he was naked. I love the way God responded:
Who told you that you were naked?” Genesis 3:11
Obviously Adam had been influenced, informed and instructed by a voice other than the voice of God. God was perturbed about it!
“You think you need to hide in shame and be afraid?
Who told you that?”
I wonder how many times God has the same objection when He hears the lies we believe:
Who told you that?
Who told you weren’t capable?
Who told you one little compromise wouldn’t hurt?
Who told you you’d never accomplish anything significant?
Who told you it was too late to start over?
Who told you that you couldn’t be forgiven?
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