A reader named Dick B. writes in and says: “Just note, there is a marked difference between present-day A.A. and its frequent lack of focus on the power of God in seeking recovery, and the early A.A. Christian fellowship and its documented 75% to 93% success rate among those who really tried.” Ah yes….the good old days. Typically summarized as: “AA used to be different, because it focused on a Christian God, and now success rates are lousy because we have deviated from that.” If a solution doesn’t scale, then it’s not a viable solution. In other words, it’s not really fair to talk about “the first 100″ in early AA and say that those were the good old days and we should go back to that formula. This is not a realistic approach, nor is it something that could really be implemented on a wide scale. The big book of AA was written and the fellowship grew and scaled as best it could while trying to maintain the core principles of the program. The higher power concept was supposedly necessary to replace the God approach because early efforts (the Oxford group) were not able to reach mass adoption due ...
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