The Creating a Sober World

J Vernon McGee delivered a message back in the 70's saying that if revival did not come our country would not survive. We listen to and discuss the message.

We pick up where we left off last Monday as we talk about blocks to healing our hurts.

It is difficult to live by the absolute of Love. But we learned from AA that we can learn how to forgive and let go of resentments which in time opens our heart to love and accept beople just the way they are. Absolute Love will be the subject of today's discussion.

My wife Diane joins me once again to discuss the importaince of sexual purity. This is not a populare topic in our sex sodden society today and even in many Christain churches.

We canotinue to discuss sexual purity, one of the 4 absolutes.

We had a technical glicth. We will restart the show at 2:30

The four absolutes which first appeared in Robert Spears "The Principles of Jeus," as 1 Purity 2 Honesty 3 Unselfishenss and 4 Love. Frank Buchman put Honesty first as he used the 4 'stabdards' as a way of self examination. When he frist adopted the 'standards' purity was at the top. Frank put honesty at the top which is where Bill W. kept it althogh the absolutes are not listed in the AA Big Book Bill W. Said they were there.

 Here is a quote from www.aabibliography.com concering the absolutes in the Big Book and in AA todayThe Big Book: Whatever has happened to the Four Absolutes in the A.A. recovery program, and despite criticisms of them by Bill Wilson, the principles are still in the Big Book for all to see. Honesty can be found emphasized-all through A.A.'s basic text. Unselfishness and the need for altruism, thoughtfulness, and consideration for others are paramount ideas. Love and the ideas of 1 Corinthians 13 are mentioned again and again, with an occasional Biblical reference as well. And purity? Was it lost? Not in Akron, where Dr. Bob and his group refused to have anything to do with those who committed adultery and other sins. Today, the purity concept has slipped between the cracks in the fellowship and in its groups in favor of widespread fornication, relationships, filthy language, adultery, and a host of other sins that man falls prey to. But these activities are not part of the A.A. recovery program as set forth in its Big Book-whether or not the teachings of Jesus have influenced that fact.

Frank Buchman called his minitry 'World Changer." Bill Wilson believed that AA could also change the world. From the 23rd chapter of the book 'Absolutlely Sober,' we will discuss this idea of world changing.

On Wednesday we discussed the power of pupose. Today we discuss the power of position. The Keswick Conferences, which started in 1875 taught us about the power of taking our position in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The AA talks on  pg63 fo their text, of the what happens when we take a position. We were reborn.

Having a clearly defined purpose in life is an extremely powerful thing. We will talk about purpose and, more specifically, the primary purpose of Creating a Sober World on today's show.

We have Eric Donaldson back with us today as we discuss living as the body of Christ. I will be asking Eric to discuss how this might relate to the sense of community that has been traditionally been a source or strenght to the African Amrican Church.