Re: Twelve Step Work

I understand taking the steps and the outcome is up to God, but working the steps is weird how does a sponsor work your steps? Convincing another take a lot of work. How does one work to get another to believe in God ?

A.A. States
“If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried. We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could will these things with all our might, but the needed power wasn't there. Our human resources, as marshaled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this power?”

In a sponsor? In a group sponsorship, in the sponsors- sponsees? For God's sake, get off the ship business that's sinking and get into a life raft - the program of AA. As a whole. It's within oneself.