Posted on 01/04/2022 7:49:40 PM PST by marshmallow
An affiliated Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group has been removed from the organisation’s online directory and ‘separated’ for saying the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ and including some Christian content in their meetings.
The group, which was hosting the meetings in a church in Yeovil, Somerset, was told that it would be removed from AA’s register because a new member of the group felt ‘uncomfortable’.
AA was formed in 1935 through the inspiration of an American Lutheran Minister, Frank Buchman. Buchman had suffered from alcoholism before a dramatic conversion to Christianity in Keswick which transformed his life.
Buchman went on to co-found the Oxford Group and launched the ’12 steps programme’, which was based on his Christian spiritual awakening. This has acted as a template for recovering from alcoholism by AA worldwide, ever since.
Minutes from a Somerset Intergroup (SIG), which oversees AA groups in the region, however, has revealed a unanimous vote to remove this AA group from the register saying that they ‘must be kept separate.’
The minutes expose that the group’s meetings had been observed and said that it was a: ‘Christian based meeting, lovely meeting but not along AA guidelines’, and concerns were raised that it was ‘announced “the only way to recovery is through Jesus.”’
The minutes state that ‘there is nothing wrong with talking about Jesus but it is not AA’, and they discuss that a pamphlet that the group share at the meetings, ‘Came to Believe’ ‘has its place, but not within AA.’
(Excerpt) Read more at christianconcern.com ...
“All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.” —O’Sullivan’s First Law
Then tell that one new member of the group to Get Lost!
Find another AA group as this one is not a good fit for such a ‘sensitive soul’ who wants to control everybody else around them.
Somehow I doubt that AA koraniacs would receive the same censure.
So give the “uncomfortable” ones their own group where they can chant “Hail Satan”.
If we never do anything about it, we can rest assured that it will just continue.
Historically, AA was greatly influenced by a lot of religious strains, including the New Thought movement:
https://www.takethe12.org/emmet-fox-and-alcoholics-anonymous/
AA is the difference between life or death for a lot of alcoholics.
AA Meetings now have participants from all over the US and Internationally thanks to Zoom.
https://aa-intergroup.org/meetings
I guess somebody forgot the Anonymous part.
I joined a support group called Onananon. Those meetings go on forever.
Each group is autonomous...
That one is God may you find him now ...
A.A. was international many years before Zoom.
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GAY GROUPS
It's seems they don't care a fig about "Unity" or "Live and Let Live/"
Onandon Anonymous. For people who just can’t shut up. H/T NNTN circa early 1980’s.
As for AA, isn’t the 12 step process rooted in Christianity? Half of the steps refer or appeal to God and prayer. Sure, it’s non-denominational, but without God, there is no AA, right?
You missed the point.
Pre-covid meetings were typically held locally in a church or other venue with participants attending in person.
Zoom has enabled any AA meeting to include participants from all over the US and internationally.
A woman from Australia shares, followed by someone from Hawaii, followed by someone from Puerto Rico, then from Texas and so on...
Good Heavens! You wouldn’t want to offend any Muslim alcoholics by mentioning Jesus.
I get that….I guess I misunderstood you post.
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FYI…I do know what Zoom is.
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Don’t these reprobates realize God is in charge of their next breath.
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