Convinced Yet?

Page: 60

Step we are on: Three

Chapter: 5 - "How It Works"

Subject: Spiritual growth, Progress, Our description of the alcoholic, ABCs

Good morning. The co-authors are giving us a quick review of what was covered in the first two steps and then they bring us right up to Step Three.

The co-authors now condense the first two steps they have just covered in the preceding chapters into three pertinent ideas:

•  What is the First 'idea"?

(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.

This is the second part of step One (Hang on we’ll get to the first part in a second)

• What is the Second "idea"?

(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.

Now, this is the first part of Step One. Powerlessness. Yes, they did it backward. So what?

• What is the Third idea?

(c) That God could and would if He were sought.

Comment:  This is where Bill wrote in the Original Manuscript, “If you are not convinced on these vital issues, you ought to re-read the book to this point or else throw it away!”

In other words, if you do not take the first two steps there is not much point in proceeding onto step three. That may be true, (And if you have worked with others even a short while as is laid out in this book, then you have discovered just how true it is)  -  but the statement did not make it past the ‘committee’ of alkies writing the book; the one hundred co-authors. (Bill Wilson is not the sole author of this book, contrary to what you may have been told.)

• If we are convinced of these vital issues, the (a), (b), (c)’s, where in the 'program' are we?

Being convinced, we were at Step Three,

 

• What have we decided to do?

which is that we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.

• Which two questions need to be answered at this point?

Just what do we mean by that, and just what do we do?

Peace and  Love,

Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

http://stepelevencomesalive.blogspot.com/