Comments on: How can a Christian get help in a secular group? http://www.nacronline.com Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Debbie http://www.nacronline.com/articles-on-the-twelve-steps/how-can-a-christian-get-help-in-a-secular-group/comment-page-1#comment-3687 Debbie Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:42:18 +0000 http://www.christiansurvivors.com/cri/nacr/wordpress/?page_id=111#comment-3687 Jennifer - Five years! Congratulations! It began with you and has been sustained by Him. You, because you asked in your brokeness - Him because He promised. Keep at it, one day at a time. I pulled out of my secular step program because I was freaking out that if these people died tonight they may be in for a rude awakening and I don't know how to say believe in Christ. I'll work it out and this article was very helpful. Thank you. Jennifer – Five years!

Congratulations! It began with you and has been sustained by Him.

You, because you asked in your brokeness – Him because He promised.

Keep at it, one day at a time.

I pulled out of my secular step program because I was freaking out that if these people died tonight they may be in for a rude awakening and I don’t know how to say believe in Christ. I’ll work it out and this article was very helpful. Thank you.

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.nacronline.com/articles-on-the-twelve-steps/how-can-a-christian-get-help-in-a-secular-group/comment-page-1#comment-1816 Jennifer Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:48:25 +0000 http://www.christiansurvivors.com/cri/nacr/wordpress/?page_id=111#comment-1816 Nearly five years sober, supernaturally delivered from the desire to use Crystal Meth, after having to admit defeat in the face of failing to quit despite all my own efforts, and progressively and supernaturally delivered from the desire to use other drugs and alcohol, I came to believe in a Power Greater than me that could restore me to sanity through spiritual healing, though I wasn't sure how. With little to no Church experience, but exposure to some AA and some of God's word, I knew it was Him when His Word is what came to my rememberance during the most difficult night of my life. I asked the Lord Jesus to be my Savior and have spent the last five years trying to know Him and His will for me more and more, but have, during this time of seeking, built up resentments even with the church and find that I have been unable to practice effectively, "letting go and letting God" with these and many other past resentments. By His grace alone I remain abstinant from all drugs and alcohol, but my spiritual growth has ceased, an overwhelming sense of isolation and loneliness has progressively grown, and the desire to use has snuck up on me for the second time within this nearly 5 years of abstinance, so I've sought help in AA. Thank you for publishing this article. I needed to be exposed to the scenario about the physician in order to get a better perspective on receiving help from someone who may not know or confess the name of Jesus Christ or believe the same things about Him as I do. I know I need the steps, but I don't know how to be a good witness for my Lord and Savior, while at the same time admit my desperate need for help to grow spiritually and my desire to do it through these steps. I am still uncertain about that, but the scenario of the physician is a good one, and has helped me to become more willing to be open minded. Thank you. Sinner, Alcoholic and Addict Nearly five years sober, supernaturally delivered from the desire to use Crystal Meth, after having to admit defeat in the face of failing to quit despite all my own efforts, and progressively and supernaturally delivered from the desire to use other drugs and alcohol, I came to believe in a Power Greater than me that could restore me to sanity through spiritual healing, though I wasn’t sure how. With little to no Church experience, but exposure to some AA and some of God’s word, I knew it was Him when His Word is what came to my rememberance during the most difficult night of my life. I asked the Lord Jesus to be my Savior and have spent the last five years trying to know Him and His will for me more and more, but have, during this time of seeking, built up resentments even with the church and find that I have been unable to practice effectively, “letting go and letting God” with these and many other past resentments. By His grace alone I remain abstinant from all drugs and alcohol, but my spiritual growth has ceased, an overwhelming sense of isolation and loneliness has progressively grown, and the desire to use has snuck up on me for the second time within this nearly 5 years of abstinance, so I’ve sought help in AA. Thank you for publishing this article. I needed to be exposed to the scenario about the physician in order to get a better perspective on receiving help from someone who may not know or confess the name of Jesus Christ or believe the same things about Him as I do. I know I need the steps, but I don’t know how to be a good witness for my Lord and Savior, while at the same time admit my desperate need for help to grow spiritually and my desire to do it through these steps. I am still uncertain about that, but the scenario of the physician is a good one, and has helped me to become more willing to be open minded. Thank you.
Sinner, Alcoholic and Addict

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