Step 3
What is the full text of Step 3?
“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”
What word describes the act of giving up control and placing trust in a Higher Power?
What is Surrender?
What is the nickname for the book “Alcoholics Anonymous,” and why is it called that?
The “Big Book": named for the thick paper it was originally printed on to save costs.
What is the full name of the book commonly called “the 12 & 12”?
What is the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions?
True or False: Step 3 requires you to believe in a specific religion or God.
False — the Higher Power can be understood in any personal, meaningful way.
Step 3 is described as a what: a one-time event or a daily practice?
A daily practice (the decision is renewed every day through actions and choices).
What word describes the quality that Step 3 is said to be based on: the willingness to do the program and give up control?
What is Willingness?
In what year was the Big Book first published?
What is 1939?
According to the 12 & 12, Step 3 calls for what kind of action — passive or affirmative?
What is Affirmative Action?
What prayer is commonly said when taking Step 3, beginning with “God, I offer myself to Thee”?
What is the Third Step Prayer?
What are the two things we turn over to the care of God in Step 3?
Our will and our lives.
What is the term used in AA for a person who guides a newcomer through the 12 Steps?
What is A sponsor?
What chapter of the Big Book contains the Twelve Steps and is where Step 3 is introduced?
What is Chapter 5 — “How It Works”
The 12 & 12 says Step 3 “opens the door” to what?
What is: To make it increasingly possible to cut away self-will and allow a Higher Power into our lives (also accept: it opens the door to the remaining steps).
What does the Big Book say we must quit doing before we can truly work Step 3?
What is: Quit playing God.
What step comes before Step 3 that builds the belief needed to take it?
Step 2: came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What word describes the self-centered, ego-driven way of living that the Big Book says is the root of our troubles?
What is Self-will (also accept: selfishness or self-centeredness)?
The Big Book says selfishness and self-centeredness is what?
What si “The root of our troubles.”
The 12 & 12 describes the alcoholic’s self-will as a what: a bone-crushing what?
What is A “bone-crushing juggernaut” (page 37)?
What famous prayer, often recited at AA meetings, asks for serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what can, and wisdom to know the difference?
What is: The Serenity Prayer?
According to the Big Book, what is the first requirement before taking Step 3?
Being convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success.
What is the AA term for the spiritual experience or awakening that results from working the Twelve Steps?
A spiritual awakening (or spiritual experience)?
On what pages of the Big Book does Step 3 appear, describing the actor analogy and self-will run riot?
What are pages 60–63?
According to the 12 & 12, every person who joins AA and intends to stick has, without realizing it, already made a beginning on which step?
What is Step 3.
Name the two co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous who developed the 12-Step program beginning in 1935.
Who are: Bill Wilson (Bill W.) and Dr. Bob Smith (Dr. Bob)?