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.

Serenity prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things. I cannot change the courage to change the things I can in the wisdom to know the difference.

Many of us have spent our lives, trying to be people we are not. Are addictive and compulsive behaviors may be only a desperate attempt to escape ourselves. Maybe we have difficulty accepting our personality, our appearance, our handicaps, or even our towns.

Read psalms 139: one through 16

Perhaps we spend our energy in time trying to be what other people want us to be because we feel that who we are is not enough. We may do all we can to separate from our inner being because we are so deeply ashamed of who we are. Self hatred is a defect of character that needs to be removed. It breeds the son of covetousness: that is, longing to be in someone else's situation or have what they have. The Psalmist wrote, thank you for making me so wonderfully complex. Your workmanship is marvelous: how well I know it. Psalms 139:14. Saying we are God's workmanship means that we are unique and beautiful masterpieces: works of divine poetry. Beauty and value are designed into the very fiber of our being by our creator. 

One important step in the recovery process is to allow God to remove our self hatred, helping us to value ourselves for who we are. We have been miraculously created, and we are treasured by God. This has been true since the time we were in our mother's room, long before we could do anything to earn it. As we begin to see how unique and special we are: embraced, and accepted by God himself: Our strides toward recovery should grow faster and longer.

Serenity prayer.

 God grant me the serenity to accept the things. I cannot change the courage to change things I can in the wisdom to know the difference amen.

In recovery, we come to realize that we are influenced by the people close to us. We welcome the support of those who are farther along the road to recovery. We may rely heavily on encouragement of our sponsors or others who are supportive of our new way of life.

Read proverbs two: one through 22

We will also come to see the negative influence of associating with people who are still living the kind of life from which we are trying to escape.  Part of our self inventory may include considering those with whom we choose to spend our time and how these decisions contribute to our progress in recovery. In proverbs, we are told that wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy. Wise choices will watch over you. Understand understanding will keep you safe. Pratum will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted. These men turn from the right way to walk down dark and evil pants. They take pleasure in doing wrong, and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil. Proverbs 2:10 through 14. We are encouraged to follow the steps of the good, and stay on the hands of the righteous. For only the God they will live in the land, and those who have integrity will remain in it. But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uploaded. Proverbs 2:20 through 22.

Are we exercising wisdom by following the steps of of those who are living the kind of life we truly desire? If we do this, we will find our lives, filled with joy. We will also be spared the loss and destruction that await those who continue down darken pathways, and do not enter into recovery.

Serenity prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things. I cannot change the courage to change the things I can in the wisdom to know the difference amen.

None of us set out to become addicted to something. We were seeking something else: escape from pain, perhaps, or something to make us for our losses and brokenness: or maybe we had a subconscious desire for self-destruction.

Read proverbs 3:13 through 26

Unfortunately, the things we turned to could not satisfy our deepest needs or desires. Our needs are legitimate. What must be changed is the tendency to go the wrong way to try to meet those needs. The Bible says, my child, don't lose sight of common sense and discernment. Hang onto them, for they will refresh your soul. They're like Jules on a necklace. They keep you safe on your way, and your feet will not stumble. Proverbs 3:21 through 23.

God, they wisdom needs a great benefit benefits in life. As we seek wisdom, we will find the other things we desire. Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding. For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold. Wisdom is more precious than Ruby: nothing you desire can compare with her. She offers you long life in her right hand, and rich is an honor in her left. She will guide you down delightful pants: all her ways are satisfying. Proverbs 3:13 through 17. As we change our focus and begin to seek after wisdom, we will find our lives more fulfilled and secure. Sadly wisdom will also help us avoid the destructive pants we have previously taken as we tried to fulfill our unmet needs and desires.

Serenity prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things. I cannot change the courage to change things I can in the wisdom to know the difference amen.

Many of us grew up in a dysfunctional family. Our parents scarcely seem to care about us at all, let alone provide wise guidance for us. This can leave us, wondering how we can fill the void in our life.

Read proverbs four: one through 23

Some people grew up in a family, where they received wise advice were wisdom was modeled, and taught by their parents. But if we haven't, we may feel like the rest of the human race has passed us by. Some of us feel anger, resentment, and shame because we had little guidance and never learned how to make wise choices. We may ask ourselves, shouldn't someone have shown me the way? Ideally, all of us should have had wise and godly instruction. The book of proverbs requires the fathers, godly instruction to his son for eye, too, was once my father's son, tenderly loved as my mothers only child. My father taught me, take my words to. ... Get wisdom: develop good judgment. Don't forget my words or turn away from them. Don't turn your back on wisdom, but she will protect you. Love her, and she will guard you. Proverbs 4: Three through six.

For those of us who were neglected and given little or no guidance by our parents, it's not too late. We have a father in heaven, who is eager to give us the wisdom we need. James advised: if you need wisdom, ask our generous God, he will give it to you. James one qualified. Or heavenly father loves us tenderly, as a parent should. He is always there for us, waiting to give us the wisdom we need whenever we ask for it.