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Why Early A.A. Succeeded and How You Can Much too
By Dick B.
Copyright 2011 Nameless. All rights reserved
The Core Ideas
• Aged Testomony healings by the power of God: Ex 15:26; Ps 103:three.
• The healings of Jesus: Matt four:23; Acts 10:38.
• Healings via the Apostles together with other Christians: Matt ten:1; Functions three:1-16; eight:five-13; fourteen:eight-10.
• Healings from Apostolic times in the ages: ()
• Christian businesses and folks coping with alcoholism from the 1850’s to the.A.
1. Rescue Missions.
2. The Youthful Gentlemen’s Christian Association.
3. Evangelists like Dwight Moody, Ira Sankey, File. B. Meyer, Billy Sunday.
4. The Salvation Army.
five. The United Culture of Christian Endeavor.
6. The Oxford Team.
7. Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr.
• The Christian upbringing of Dr. Bob: ().
• The Christian upbringing of Bill W. ().
• The “streams” that flowed with the early days:
1. Big apple: Rowland Hazard, Dr. Carl Jung, Dr. William D. Silkworth,
Ebby Thacher, Invoice W., Calvary Mission, Towns Healthcare facility, Witnessing.
two. Akron: James Newton, Russell Firestone, HP toneri Oxford Group 1933, Henrietta Seiberling and T. Henry Williams, prayer over the rug, mobile phone zamjenski toneri get in touch with from Bill.
three. Bill HP toneri W. and Dr. Bob fulfill at Seiberling Gate Lodge--explore alcoholism, conversion, electrical power of God, and service to Some others.
• How the initial three (Monthly bill W., Dr. Bob, Bill Dotson) bought sober by turning to God.
• Alcoholics Nameless deemed Established in June 1935 when Dr. Bob took his previous drink.
• Akron Number 1--July 4, 1935, any time a.A. Variety 3 discharged from healthcare facility.
• The “Christian fellowship” Invoice and Bob founded and designed in between 1935 and 1939.
one. The initial, seven-position Akron plan as summarized by Frank Amos.
two. The 16 practices on the A.A. pioneers in Akron.
3. The “initially 40” (Nov. 1937) and early A.A.'s assert of a seventy five% accomplishment price.
• Alcoholics Nameless (the “Huge Reserve”) and its Twelve Methods published.
one. Three Key sources: Dr. Silkworth, William James, Sam Shoemaker.
two. Adjustments made while in the “printer's manuscript” (The Guide That Started off It All)
three. The very first version of Alcoholics Anonymous posted on April 10, 1939.
• Cleveland A.A. structured Could eleven, 1939: The large Reserve, the 12 Ways, the Bible, the Four Absolutes, and “the vast majority of Previous Application.”
• The “nonsense gods” grew when Invoice wrote the A.A. team could possibly be your “bigger electrical power.” [Building about the “committee of 4” compromise--A.A. Arrives of Age, 166-sixty seven.]