Month: October 2019

What happens to Christians in Alcoholics Anonymous?

Christians in the A.A. program often adjust their theology. In a pastor’s office, an A.A. Christian told me straight faced that alcoholics were too angry and didn’t want to hear about Christ, so the “higher power” concept was necessary. This is simply one more repetition of what I have heard at many, many A.A. meetings.

A.A. has given us the confusion of recovery passing for sanctification, and twelve-step theology has some Christians in A.A. believing it is perfectly fine to encourage alcoholics to go ahead and make up a “god.” To help justify attendance in this non-biblical spirituality, the myth has been promulgated that most alcoholics with custom-designed higher powers will eventually come to Christ. This is simply not so. It is relatively rare but is presented as a common occurrence. This claim is one of the primary ways Christians justify A.A.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, most Christians experience a transference of faith. The twelve-step experience often becomes an idol. It is not uncommon to speak with Christians who are more concerned with “recovery” than sanctification and who demonstrate a preference for A.A. rather than the fellowship with the saints. Click here to continue reading…

 

Prison Minister: Christ, not Alcoholics Anonymous

The following comment is from Brother Paul, a prison minister with a very clear understanding as to why Christians should never be involved with the Alcoholics Anonymous (12 Step) religion. He responded after reading this article…

Brother Paul writes:

I agree with this 💯!!!! As a jail/prison minister, we have dealt with inmates who were court ordered to attend AA meetings. Sometimes it was hard to combat that indoctrination, and sometimes it wasn’t well received. What we taught them (the inmates) was that there was only ONE “higher power” and His name is Jesus Christ! And AA was not only spiritually dangerous, it was, at best, a band aid on a gaping wound! The problem mainly was its focus is on quitting drinking. There is nothing about the need for salvation being preached. My ministry partner has a testimony that he quit drugs and alcohol BEFORE he even knew Christ! And he found himself the same empty soul he was before, only sober! They also teach, “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic”. We teach that “if the Son makes you free, you are free indeed.” We teach that Christ is able to save and deliver! And we teach that alcoholism is not a “disease” but is a SIN problem! And sin is only overcome through Jesus Christ! Thank you for being willing to say this!!!!!

A.A.’s 12 Step Seduction of Christians

It is a fearful thing, leaving A.A. The Big Book (the A.A. “Bible”) states, “We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not.”[1] Because this passage of A.A. “scripture” is taken literally, alcoholics rarely look elsewhere for help. Christians continue to jam their God, the Ancient of Days, into A.A.’s chameleon theology.

“Do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11-12)

It is not just fear that keeps us bound to this all-gods religion. The 12 Step experience becomes an idol–long term involvement almost always results in a transference of faith. Bluntly stated, when it comes to sobriety, many Christians end up with more faith in the power of the 12 Step program than in Jesus Christ.

Were the A.A. co-founders Christians? READ

Sayings of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim’s Progress

These ‘Sayings of John Bunyan’ can be found at the beginning of Bunyan’s book, Journey to Hell:

“Hell would be a kind of paradise if it were no worse than the worst of this world.”

“A man would be counted a fool to slight a judge before whom he is to have a trial of his whole estate. The trial we have before God is of another kind of importance. It concerns our eternal happiness or misery, and yet we dare to affront Him?”

“I have often thought that the best of Christians are found in the worst of times. And I have thought again that one reason why we are no better is because God purges us no more. Noah and Lot-who was as holy as they in the time of their affliction? And yet who so idle as they in the time of their prosperity?”

“In times of affliction, we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”

“Forsake not the public worship of God, lest God forsake you, not only in public, but in private.”