Dr. Mark E. Shaw speaks with Jim Quigley, a Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor with The Addiction Connection, about Step 4. Their discussion centers around how the Bible speaks into the lives of God’s people who have been addicted and are addicted, and how the Twelve Steps sometimes contradict what God says in His Word. A Christ-follower who now serves as the Executive Director of Freedom Farm Ministries in Boone, NC: www.freedomfarmministries.org
Many people use this self-help movement to stay sober, but the problem is when the self-help movement sets itself up as a spiritual solution that often goes awry from the Bible and Christianity.
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is a book of ideas and various contributors who wrote stories: https://aa.org/pages/en_US/read-the-big-book-and-twelve-steps-and-twelve-traditions
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
"I was a poster child for A.A. … I picked up a white chip and I stayed clean and sober for six years, and, for at least a third of that I was very actively involved in A.A.. Now, that six years was followed up by a 5-year very, very dark relapse, and a lot of that was because of this trying to integrate AA philosophy in with Christianity and the inability to do that, and finally one of them won and praise God! God’s truth won out of all of that in my own heart and mind and I was transformed." -Quigley
