Appendix 1 and 2
Appendix 1: The Twelve Steps
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol- that our lives
had become unmanageable
2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
the care of God as we understood Him
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects
of character
7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings
8. We made a list of all persons we have harmed and became willing
to make amends to them all
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except
when to do so would injure them or others
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were
wrong, promptly admitted it
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge
of His will for us and the power to carry that out
12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these
steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and practice
these principles in all our affairs.
Appendix 2: Some Christian resources
Anonymous e-mail contact with other Christian alcoholics and their
families: christianalcoholics@carelinks.net
Eastern Europe / Russian speaking counselling: a. d. 1903, Vilnius
2012 LITHUANIA; a.k. 97, Riga 1007 LATVIA
The Caring Network, North America
The Queensland Caring Network, Australia
Notes
(1) Caroline Knapp, “The
Glass Half Empty”, The New York Times Magazine (9 May 1999),
p. 19.
(2) Jean Kinney &
Gwen Leaton, Loosening The Grip: A Handbook Of Alcohol Information
(St Louis: Mosby, 1995) p. 21. This is an invaluable source of statistics
and facts relating to alcoholism.
(3) The most Biblical
attempt to justify total abstinence which I have come across is
in Peter Masters, Should Christians Drink? The Case For Total
Abstinence (London: Wakeman, 2001). But even this, in my opinion,
fails to conclusively clinch the case Biblically. I have to leave
it at the level of a personal conscience decision.
(4) Jorge Valles, Social
Drinking And Alcoholism (Texas Alcohol And Narcotics Educations
Council, 1965) p. 14.
(5) Darryl Inaba &
William Cohen, Physical And Mental Effects Of Psychoactive Drugs
(Ashland, OR: C.N.S., 1993), p. 135.
(6) Roy Hatfield, “Closet
Alcoholics In The Church”, Christianity Today, 18 August
1981 p. 28.
(7) This is discussed
and documented in some detail in Andre Bustanoby, The Wrath Of
Grapes (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987).
(8) Jean Kinney &
Gwen Leaton, Loosening The Grip: A Handbook Of Alcohol Information
(St Louis: Mosby, 1995) p. 21.
(9) For a fine and moving
account of a Christian’s deliverance from alcohol abuse, see the
thrilling, chilling testimony of Peter Bayliss in The Perils
Of Drug And Alcohol Abuse (Birmingham: Care Group Publications,
1999).
(10) Paul Martin, The
Healing Mind, 1997, p. 157.
(11) K.M. Magruder,
“The Association Of Alcoholism Mortality With Legal Availability
Of Alcoholic Beverages”, Alcohol And Drug Education, 1976.
