Big Book
What year was the Big Book first published?
1939
Came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 2
Who is the most important person in a meeting?
The newcomer
What are the three sides of the triangle?
Unity, service, recovery
HALT is the acronym for what?
Hungry, angry, lonely, tired
Name the four horsemen
terror, bewilderment, frustration, despair
What step involves asking a higher power to remove short-comings?
Step 7
What is required for someone to become a member of AA?
A desire to stop drinking
The twelfth tradition asks members to place this before personalities.
Principles
This is alone is not sufficient to overcome alcoholism or addiction.
Willpower
The alcoholic has a daily reprieve from drinking contingent upon what?
The maintenance of our spiritual condition
Step 10 advises that we continue to watch for what?
selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, fear
Meetings are self-supporting through this.
Our own contributions
What do we think is the root of our troubles? Selfishness--self-centeredness!
Selfishness--self-centeredness
This state has the highest rate of fatal drinking and driving accidents, maybe due to weather hazards.
Alaska
What is the only chapter not written by Bill W?
"To employers"
In the third step prayer we ask God to relieve us of this?
The bondage of self
This person is a guide, a mentor, and a fellow recovering addict, who volunteers their time to help a newcomer in the 12-step program.
Sponsor
What is a group in which a member is comfortable with and where he or she does official group business?
Home group
This holiday has the highest number of drunken driving accidents?
Thanksgiving
What is the number one offender?
Resentment
Recite all the 12 steps of AA
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
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.
What was the birthdate and place of AA?
1935; Akron, OH
How many "Steps" did the early form of AA have in 1935?
Six; 1) Complete Deflation. 2) Dependence and guidance from a Higher Power. 3) Moral inventory. 4) Confession. 5) Restitution. 6) Continued work with other alcoholics.
What are the 12 spiritual principles of AA?
Honesty, Hope, Faith, Courage, Integrity, Willingness, Humility, Brotherly Love, Justice, Perseverance, Spirituality, Service.