A Critique of the Twelve Steps: Step 11
Special Guest: Fred Bucci from Mayfield Heights, OH. Fred and his wife Lauri worship and serve at Cornerstone Community Church – you can find them at cornerstonemayfield.org
Fred and Lauri are both Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselors with The Addiction Connection.
Dr. Mark E. Shaw continues the podcast series by asking Fred about Step 11 of The Twelve Steps. Those can be found at https://aa.org/pages/en_US/read-the-big-book-and-twelve-steps-and-twelve-traditions
Their discussion centers around how the Bible speaks into the lives of God’s people who have been addicted and are addicted. 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 falls short.
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.
"If you don’t know Jesus then you can’t have conscious contact with God." -Bucci
1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”(ESV)
