In faith and Recovery whether something works can be less important than what fits with the current popular trend. You only need to go on the web to listen to dueling opinions about various methods of recovery and faith. Mostly they trash each other. In my journey, I have listened to both sides trash each other. AA’s work over churches and conveniently forget folks get sober without fanfare in church. It is taken for granted that coming to Jesus can often take away habits, It is not taken as extraordinary. In like manner faith, folks are really offended by a God as you understand him ann discount the many who get sober in AA. And they discount people like me who found faith in Jesus while getting sober in AA as I chased a fellow AA girl into a prayer meeting and got saved. Does this mean my encounter with Jesus is less because I started with God and later found Jesus? Another question for the CR troops is there less value in sobriety in AA or in CR? And is salvation in AA less saving than in AA or NA?
Another question is CR recovery better than AA recovery? Is a church-going AA less than a CR in recovery? Is there more chance of getting hurt in AA or NA or in a CR. Is there more chance of getting into bad doctrine in AA or in your average Pentecostal mega-church? Actually, it is about even. We tear down and forget the miracles in both.
My point is biased outlooks in any organization make discernment tricky.
So my next podcast will be about where the good stuff can be found and where the bad stuff lurks. My object is not to tear down, but to encourage quality in both faith and recovery because good stuff grows in both. But like any garden prudent weeding is not just an option, but a necessary discipline. If humans grow gardens you get weeds. This is a common denominator of human stuff. Weeds! But even a bit of weed need not stop the crop.
I will talk about the weeds and crops
So listen to the podcast and find out about the weeds and the crops.
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