The Steps
This is the only step where we "make a decision"
What is Step 3? (Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God)
(How it Works-page 59)
This tradition tells us what the only requirement for AA membership is.
What is Tradition 3
(BB page 562- The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.)
This person wrote the Doctor's Opinion.
Who is Dr. William D. Silkworth aka "Silky"?
(Preface-page xi, 2nd paragraph)
This service commitment suggests the member be "Gainfully employed and/or financially solvent."
What is Treasurer?
This man wrote the Big Book with assistance from the first 100...
Who is Bill W.
This is the step that encourages us to "practice these principles in all our affairs"
What is Step 12? (Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs")
(How it Works-page 59)
This tradition talks about our policy on public relations, maintaining personal anonymity at different public levels.
What is Tradition 11?
(BB page 562-Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, television and films.)
This man was a "competent businessman of good earning capacity", a New York Stockbroker, and is one of the cofounders of AA.
Who is Bill Wilson?
(Foreword to 2nd edition-page xv-xvi)
The person elected for this service commitment should be trusted with the Group vote and will carry the information back to the Group as to what is going on in our Fellowship on a District/ Area level .
What is the GSR?
This is Chapter 1 of the Big Book...
What is Bill's Story?
(Page 1.
The Preface, Forewards and The Doctor's Opinion, are before Chapter 1.)
This is the step where we examine our selfish, dishonest, self seeking and fearful mistakes.
What is Step 4? (Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.)
(How it Works-page 67 "...we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self seeking and frightened?)
This tradition reminds us that each member is "but a small part of a great whole." and promotes unity.
What is Tradition 1?
(BB-page 563- 12 Traditions Long Form.
page 562- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity.)
This man is the Akron physician who was a cofounder AA.
Who is Dr. Bob S.mith?
(Foreword to 2nd edition-page xv-xvi)
This service commitment keeps accurate minutes of each meeting.
What is the secretary?
This edition of the Big Book was published in 2001.
What is the Fourth Edition?
(Preface-page xi) The First edition was published in 1939, the Second edition in 1955, the Third edition in 1976 and the Fourth in 2001.
This is the prayer for this step... "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen."
What is Step 7?
(Into Action-page 77)
This is the only tradition that mentions the word God.
What is Tradition 2?
(BB page 562. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority-a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.)
This is the name of the place where Bill W. read the doggerel on an old tombstone, "Here lies a Hampshire Grenadier who caught his death drinking cold small beer..."
What is Winchester Cathedral in England?
(Bill's story-page 1)
This service commitment (and committee) is responsible for the distribution of literature and information to the public at the district/area level.
What is P.I.-Public Information
This is the last chapter in the Big Book BEFORE the personal stories.
What is A Vision For You?
(Chapter 11, page 151)
This step instructs us to "promptly admit when we are wrong".
Step 10. (Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it)
(How it Works-page 59)
This tradition tells us we "may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought AA membership ever depend upon money or conformity."
What is Tradition 3?
(BB page 563- 12 Traditions Long Form.
Page 562-The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.)
This magazine featured an article written by Jack Alexander in 1941 that, "placed such a compelling picture of AA before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us."
What is the Saturday Evening Post?
(Foreword to the 2nd edition-page xviii)
The person who holds this service commitment at the area, district, or world level is only allowed to vote in the case of a tie.
Who is the Chairperson?
This is the "main purpose" of this book, according to the foreword to the first edition.
What is, "To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered" ? is the main purpose of this book.
(Foreword to the 1st edition-page xiii)