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.

Step three

We made a decision to turn our wills in our lives over to the care of God.

Trust in God

Read numbers 23:18 through 24

It is not uncommon to link our perceptions about God to our childhood experiences with people who played powerful roles in our lives. If we have been victimized in the past by people who were abusive, distant, uncaring, or Incompetent, we may now anticipate these qualities in God.

Just because God is a power greater than we are, and the people who victimized us represented at a power greater than we were, we must not conclude that God will harm us if we trust our lies to him. Jesus tells us that he didn't interest himself to people because he knew what was in their hearts. Nevertheless, he voluntarily turned his life over to the will of God, the father. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in people. Psalms 118:8. 

We may have learned in the past that putting confidence in people brings only pain and disappointment. We can't let this keep us from ever trusting again. And working through step three we can make a healthy decision decision to turn our wills in our lives over to the only one worthy of being interested. The Bible tells us, God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Number is 23:19. And God has said, I will never fail you. I will never abandon you. Hebrews 13:5. 

We know that we can't make it all alone. But now we can stop being the victim. We can turn our lives over to someone who is ready and really able to care for our needs.

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Trust in God. Number is 23:18 through 24.

What in my life has taught me not to trust God?

What have I done to cause others not to trust me?

What keeps me From surrendering to God?

Step three

We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God.

Free to choose

Read Deuteronomy 30:15 through 20

Everyone has a life or death decision to make. We have all been created with the supreme privilege of free will: the ability to choose. Even even when we are in bondage of our addictions, we still have choices confronting us. When we are in recovery, we face the nagging deer of falling back into our addictions. The freedom to choose brings with the burden of the consequences of our choices. These choices affect our lives in the lives of our children. Free is our blessing and our responsibility. 

God spoke to Moses, saying, now listen. Today, I am giving you a choice between life and death, between prosperity and disaster. Before I command you this day to love the Lord, dear God, and to keep his commands, decrease, and regulations by walking in his ways. If you do this, you will live.... And the Lord, your God will bless you... But if your heart turns away, and you refuse to listen,... Then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed... today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live. You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obey him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. Deuteronomy 30:15 through 20. 

Although we may feel out of control with respect to our addictions, we can choose to set our heart in the direction of life. We can choose to love God and begin to follow his program.

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Free to choose. Deuteronomy 30:15 through 20.

What is it about my understanding of God that blocked me from deciding to turn my life and my will over to his care?

How does fear affect my choices?

Step three

We made a decision to turn our wheels in our lives over to the care of God.

Giving up control

Read Psalm 61:1 through eight

The thought of turning our wheels in our lives overcome, be attractive. When we give in to our dependencies and compulsions, aren't we given control over to another power? Aren't we in someway giving up personal responsibility for our lives? When we are overwhelmed and want to escape, our addictions can make us feel strong, safe, attractive, powerful, happy. Soul, in a sense, we are very comfortable with the thought of giving up control of our wheels in our lives. 

We can take steps to change our focus and turn our lives over to God instead of reverting to the hiding places of the past. The apostle Paul touched on this contrast when he said, don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 5:18.

When we are overwhelmed, and in need of some kind of escape, we have a new place to turn. David declared, the Lord is a shelter for the oppressed, a refugee times of trouble. Those who know your name, trust in you, for you, oh Lord, do not abandon those who searched for you. Psalms 9:9 through 10.

David also wrote, from the ends of the earth, I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of safety, For you are my safe refuge, Fortress, where my enemies cannot reach me. Psalms 61:2 through three.

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Where did I get the illusion that I can control other people or my circumstances, job, or life?

What stops me from giving up my life, so that I can find the life God intends for me?

Step three

We made a decision to turn our wills in our lives over to take care of God.

Redeeming the past

Each of us comes to God with the past. And turning our lives over to him, we give him our entire selves, including our past losses and shame. We hand over to him every moment of disgrace, every year we have ever cried, every word we wish we could take back, all the broken promises, the loneliness, all the dreams that died, the dash hopes, the broken relationship relationships, our successes and failures: all of our yesterday's and the scars they have left in our lives. 

Under Old Testament law, if someone lost freedom, property, or spouse because of a disaster or a debt, the next of kin was looked too as a redeemer. If property had been lost because of inability to pay, the redeemer would pay for it and return it to the original owner. If a woman lost her husband, the redeemer would marry her, providing her with protection and love. That tells us, fear or not: you will no longer live in shame. Don't be afraid: there is no more disgrace for you. You will no longer remember the shame of your youth and the sorrows of your widowhood. For your creator will be your husband: the Lord of heaven's arms is his name. He is your redeemer ... For the Lord has called you back from your grief. Isaiah 54:4 through six.

God is our redeemer, the restore of our losses. He is Lord of all, even our days in our dreams in the past. When we give God the past, he can make up for all we have lost. He can read us of the shame and fill the empty places in our hearts.

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Redeeming the past. Isaiah 54:4 through eight.

How do I hold the redeemer at arms length? Why?

What fears have the most power in my life?

How is shame connected to fear in me?