The Creating a Sober World Creating a Sober World

We talked on Friday about how necessary forgiveness of others was to open up our heats to the Love of Jesus. Before we can really feel safe in forgiving ti is necessary in many cases to deal with two other issues that stand in the way of our feeling safe enough to deal with the hurt of the past. Today we will discuss one of these. We will discuss the big 'NO.'
 

We canotinue to discuss sexual purity, one of the 4 absolutes.
 

We had a technical glicth. We will restart the show at 2:30
The four absolutes which first appeared in Robert Spears "The Principles of Jeus," as 1 Purity 2 Honesty 3 Unselfishenss and 4 Love. Frank Buchman put Honesty first as he used the 4 'stabdards' as a way of self examination. When he frist adopted the 'standards' purity was at the top. Frank put honesty at the top which is where Bill W. kept it althogh the absolutes are not listed in the AA Big Book Bill W. Said they were there.
 Here is a quote from www.aabibliography.com concering the absolutes in the Big Book and in AA todayThe Big Book: Whatever has happened to the Four Absolutes in the A.A. recovery program, and despite criticisms of them by Bill Wilson, the principles are still in the Big Book for all to see. Honesty can be found emphasized-all through A.A.'s basic text. Unselfishness and the need for altruism, thoughtfulness, and consideration for others are paramount ideas. Love and the ideas of 1 Corinthians 13 are mentioned again and again, with an occasional Biblical reference as well. And purity? Was it lost? Not in Akron, where Dr. Bob and his group refused to have anything to do with those who committed adultery and other sins. Today, the purity concept has slipped between the cracks in the fellowship and in its groups in favor of widespread fornication, relationships, filthy language, adultery, and a host of other sins that man falls prey to. But these activities are not part of the A.A. recovery program as set forth in its Big Book-whether or not the teachings of Jesus have influenced that fact.

Frank Buchman called his minitry 'World Changer." Bill Wilson believed that AA could also change the world. From the 23rd chapter of the book 'Absolutlely Sober,' we will discuss this idea of world changing.
 

The idea of letting go absolutely did not enter into the speech of most Christians until the late  1800's with the publication of Hannah Whital-Smith's  "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life." we ill talk about this idea of complete surrender on today's show.

On Wednesday we discussed the power of pupose. Today we discuss the power of position. The Keswick Conferences, which started in 1875 taught us about the power of taking our position in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The AA talks on  pg63 fo their text, of the what happens when we take a position. We were reborn.