Alcoholics are ill people who need compassion and understanding; not bad people who can be treated with anger and indifference. Treating alcoholics condescendingly can make them defensive, hostile, and push them farther away from the treatment they need. Instead of asking for help, they may deny that they need it and try to use their own power to fix their problem (Miller 59). Alcoholism is a disease that can affect anyone, Christians and non-Christians; recovery, however is most effective when Christians rely on their faith to overcome their disease. Alcohol can have effects on people. It can allow you to comfortably communicate and relate to people, and give you a sense of self worth. Alcohol dependence is the inability of the drinker
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This book helps explain that simply getting dry is less than half of recovery, remaining sober requires new psychological insights, an improved social life, and the restructuring your values(West 166). Treatment helps achieve all these steps. One person sent in a question asking, “Do prayers help in trying to get an alcoholic to stop drinking?” They were answered by: “Sometimes, it seems, they’re the only things that do. Hope, and the internal spiritual strengths that respond to prayer, can sustain the person who has to stand by and watch and alcoholic tragedy unfold. however, people have told me many times that after they have prayed, help has shown up in the most unexpected place and time” (West 149). The Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) society was created to help recovering alcoholics; even though it wasn’t created specifically for Christians, Christians find it more effective when they apply it to their faith. The society was created by Bill Wilson (Milam 120). AA is many things, but it is not a treatment program, there are no detoxification facilities or staff, no 24 hour medical care, no professional counselors, and no authority to ensure patient counseling services (Milam 132). People who join A.A. must detoxify themselves, but many can’t because they go back to drinking when they suffer from …show more content…
name ought never be drawn, into public controversy.” A.A. simply wants to help anyone they can recovery, they do not take sides in public controversy (Alcoholics Anonymous 24).
Eleventh, “Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.” Personal anonymity is key to survival, they wish to make their principles public, not the people (Alcoholics Anonymous 25).
Finally, “Anonymity is spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.” The essence of the Twelve Traditions is to sacrifice your personal aims for the good of the society. (Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc 9-13) There are also many Bible studies Christians can read to help them along the road to recovery by encouraging them along the way. Matthew 10:39 says: “He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it,” (Miller 89). We must give up our delusionary control so we can get reality-oriented self-control. Spirituality must be applied to your whole life: family, job, friends, dreams, and aspirations, not simply in
This book helps explain that simply getting dry is less than half of recovery, remaining sober requires new psychological insights, an improved social life, and the restructuring your values(West 166). Treatment helps achieve all these steps. One person sent in a question asking, “Do prayers help in trying to get an alcoholic to stop drinking?” They were answered by: “Sometimes, it seems, they’re the only things that do. Hope, and the internal spiritual strengths that respond to prayer, can sustain the person who has to stand by and watch and alcoholic tragedy unfold. however, people have told me many times that after they have prayed, help has shown up in the most unexpected place and time” (West 149). The Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) society was created to help recovering alcoholics; even though it wasn’t created specifically for Christians, Christians find it more effective when they apply it to their faith. The society was created by Bill Wilson (Milam 120). AA is many things, but it is not a treatment program, there are no detoxification facilities or staff, no 24 hour medical care, no professional counselors, and no authority to ensure patient counseling services (Milam 132). People who join A.A. must detoxify themselves, but many can’t because they go back to drinking when they suffer from …show more content…
name ought never be drawn, into public controversy.” A.A. simply wants to help anyone they can recovery, they do not take sides in public controversy (Alcoholics Anonymous 24).
Eleventh, “Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.” Personal anonymity is key to survival, they wish to make their principles public, not the people (Alcoholics Anonymous 25).
Finally, “Anonymity is spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.” The essence of the Twelve Traditions is to sacrifice your personal aims for the good of the society. (Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc 9-13) There are also many Bible studies Christians can read to help them along the road to recovery by encouraging them along the way. Matthew 10:39 says: “He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it,” (Miller 89). We must give up our delusionary control so we can get reality-oriented self-control. Spirituality must be applied to your whole life: family, job, friends, dreams, and aspirations, not simply in