Romans 3:23 says,
"...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God..." (ESV) [1]
How do most addiction counselors explain addiction and "insanity"? Do "good people" become insane?
3:13 Mark quotes Step 1 and Step 2 from The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous [2] and the goal of restoration to sanity.
4:32 Recovery world's goal is restoration to sanity because they have accepted the message of "insanity."
6:20 Colloquial definition of insanity
6:40 Definition of insanity [3]
7:55 Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith changed the original supposed Christian roots of the Twelve Step Program
10:20 "came to believe..." from Step 2 [2]
11:13 Dr. Shaw quotes from the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,[4]
14:30 Is the problem insanity or is the problem sin? Is the solution any power greater than ourselves?
16:15 What is the remedy?
17:13 Ecclesiastes 9:3 "This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead." (ESV) [1]
18:40 What does the Holy Spirit accomplish in believers in Christ Jesus?
19:40 Why do words matter? Restoring to sanity or reconciling to God?
Mark E. Shaw, D.Min., is the Founder of The Addiction Connection, and leads a network of Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselorswith TAC.
Find addiction residential programs at
https://www.theaddictionconnection.org/residential-programs/
[1] Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. May not copy or download more than 500 consecutive verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.
[2] From the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, which can be found at https://www.alcohol.org/alcoholics-anonymous/
[3] Google's English Dictionary provided by Oxford Languages. Definition found at https://www.google.com/search?q=insane&oq=insane&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i433j46j0i433j0i131i433j46i433j0i433l2j0i131i433j0i433.1288j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
[4] Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Thirty-eighth printing, June 1988, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services: New York, NY. Alcoholics Anonymous (R) is a registered trademark of A.A. World Services, Inc.
