Welcome to the Alcoholics Anonymous Christian Workbook and Bible, a resource thoughtfully designed to guide you through meetings, it is a journey of reflection, faith, and spiritual growth. This workbook combines Biblical principles with the transformative steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering you a meaningful way to strengthen your faith while working toward recovery. Each meeting is carefully structured to encourage prayer, self-reflection, and journaling, allowing you to connect deeply with God and examine your personal walk with Him.

Over these meetings, you will find prompts and exercises that encourage you to write and reflect. While it may seem like a lot of writing, this process is essential for growth and healing. Writing allows you to process your thoughts, acknowledge your struggles, and celebrate your victories. Think of this workbook as a personal conversation between you and God—a space where honesty and vulnerability lead to restoration and hope.

We’re here to support your journey, and this workbook is a step toward reclaiming both your life and your faith. Let this be an opportunity to grow spiritually, deepen your understanding of God’s Word, and take meaningful strides on your path to recovery. Remember, you are not alone in this journey—God is walking alongside you every step of the way. Let’s get started and see what He has in store for you!

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.
   2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
   3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
   4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
   5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
   6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
2. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
   8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
   9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
   10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
   11. 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 awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Week 15

Recovery principles

Denial

Read Ecclesiastes 3:16-4: 1

Some of us avoid or cope with our own pain by trying to fix the world. We tried to write every wrong, heal every wound, point out every injustice. We spend our time demanding that the world system reform. We may also dedicate ourselves to rescuing and reforming those we love. Our zealousness to set the world right can be a means of denying that we are powerless to do so.

Solomon said, I also noticed that under the sun there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt. I said to myself, induce season. God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds... I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless. Ecclesiastes 3:16 through 17, Four: one. Solomon saw that the world was not as it should be. He also recognized that it was ultimately God's job to judge the injustice in our world.

When we settle out to save the world, we're by taking on a roll that belongs to God. What we gained by taking on such a massive task is the guarantee that we will always be busy. Then we will never have the time or energy to face our own issues. The Bible makes it clear that the world will never be right until Jesus Christ returns to make it so. We need to accept the fact that we are powerless to do his job. This does not mean that we should turn a blind eye to the world's problems. When we focus on our own recovery, fixing ourselves instead of everyone else, we will be more effective in helping other others. 

Week 16

Recovery principal

Honest

Read Jeremiah 9:1 through nine

Most of us know the pain caused by deceit, both for the deceiver, and for the one who has been betrayed. We may be trying to learn to trust again after living in a situation in which we haven't been given any reason to trust.

David cried, help, oh Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing. The faithful had vanished from the Earth. Neighbors lie to each other, Speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts. May the Lord cut off their flattering lips and silence they both full tongues. They say, we will lie to our hearts content. Our lips are our own: who can stop us? 12:1 through four.

Jeremiah prophecy, beware of your neighbor. Don't even trust your brother. For brothers take advantage of brother, and friend lender's friend. They all fool in default each other: no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies: they wear themselves out with all their sin. They pile upon lie, and utterly refused to acknowledge me, says the Lord. Therefore, this is what the Lord of heavens armies says: C, I will melt them down in a crucible and test them like metal. Jeremiah 9:4 through seven. 

When we turn our lies over to God, learning to trust him as a process. He understands that this will be hard. But God is absolutely trustworthy. We should be cautious, however, as we put our trust in people, trusting only those who have proven themselves trustworthy.

Week 17

Recovery principal

Hope

Read Jeremiah 17:1 through 14 

We may have learned a long time ago that Hope only brings disappointment. Our hopes were dashed. The promises we believe we're broken. We were feeling like fools for ever in the first place. But perhaps we were devastated because we put our hope in the wrong place.

That is what the Lord says: cursed are those who put their trust in near humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the baron wilderness, in an inhabited, salty land. But blessed are those who trust in the Lord, and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drunk. Their leaves stay green, and they never stopped producing fruit. Jeremiah 17:5 through eight.

Turning our lives over to God means, placing our hope, and confidence in him instead of people, who will disappoint us. When we place our hope and trust in other people, it's like expecting a treat of flourish in a bar in desert. People disappoint us and are unable to satisfy our deepest needs. Trusting God changes everything. Jesus said, the water I give.... Becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, given them eternal life. John 4:14. When our hope is in God in our lives are in his care, we are sustained when we otherwise would be devastated.

Week 18

Recovery principal

Hope

Read lamentations 3:1- 26

Perhaps we were brokenhearted because of bitter suffering on our family. Maybe our one good reputation has been ruined and now we are ashamed. Our lives have been taken captive and destroyed before the watchful eyes of friends and follow.

Jeremiah watched this happened to his beloved nation, Israel. It's no wonder he is known as the weeping prophet. The people of God refused to listen to Jeremiah's warnings, and they were taken captive by a heathen nation as a result. Lamentations is a record of Jeremiah's Over the shameful of God's people. He wept, peace, has been stripped away, and I have forgotten what prosperity is. I cry out, my splendor is gone. Everything I have hoped for from the Lord is lost. The thought of my suffering and homelessness is Better beyond words. I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet I still dared to hope when I remember this: the faithful love of the Lord never ends. His mercies never cease. Greatest as his faithfulness: his mercies began a fresh each morning. I say to myself, the Lord is mine inheritance: therefore, I will help him.... So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord. Lamentations 3:17 through 26.

Turning in our lives over to God includes giving him our pain and suffering. In our times of grief and shame, we can hope, knowing that God will help us overcome the problems with these. God is strong enough to lift our burdens and loving enough to mend our broken hearts.