HOW IT WORKS
According to the Big Book, these availed us nothing.
What are half measures?
After completing Step Five, the Big Book tells us to go home and spend this amount of time quietly reviewing what we have done.
What is one hour?
“Half measures availed us…”
What is “nothing”?
True or False: The Big Book says, “Meeting makers make it.”
What is FALSE?
The Ninth Step Promises tell us we will know a new freedom and this.
What is “a new happiness”?
The Big Book says this, rather than alcohol, is our “number one” offender.
What is resentment?
When making amends, the Big Book says we are there to do this to “our side of the street.”
What is sweep it off?
“Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to…”
What are “causes and conditions”?
True or False: The Big Book says selfishness and self-centeredness are the root of our troubles.
What is TRUE?
According to the Ninth Step Promises, fear of people and fear of this will leave us.
What is “economic insecurity”?
What short word does the Big Book describe as "an evil and corroding thread” was woven through the fabric of our existence.
What is fear?
The Big Book says our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to these two.
Who are God and the people about us?
“We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and…”
What is “free”?
True or False: The Big Book recommends 90 meetings in 90 days to newcomers.
What is FALSE?
According to the Third Step promises, our new Employer will provide what we need if we do these two things.
What are “keep close to Him and perform His work well”?
When looking at those we resent, we are instructed to view them this way, even when we don’t like their symptoms or the way they disturb us.
What are sick people?
When approaching an enemy to make amends, the Big Book says we should take this “in our teeth.”
What is the bit?
“We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is…”
What is “a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition”?
The Big Book tells alcoholics to “think through the drink” to avoid relapse.
What is FALSE.
“We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago.”
The Tenth Step promises say that if tempted by liquor, we will react to it in this way.
What is “recoil from it as from a hot flame”?
The Big Book says this was the actor’s basic trouble: he was what, even when trying to be kind, considerate, patient, and generous?
What is self-seeking?
According to the Big Book, we must lose our fear of these people, no matter how far we have to go, because we are liable to drink if we are afraid to face them.
What are creditors?
“The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few cases, neither he nor…”
What is “any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power”?
True or False: The Big Book tells us that “self-knowledge” can keep an alcoholic sober once they fully understand their condition.
What is FALSE?
“But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.”
The Tenth Step promises say we will discover that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without these two things on our part.
What are “thought or effort”?