But AAs have given the A Our prayer a special place in their meetings. It can be found in many other parts of the New Testament. The concept and expression of God as A is not confined to the Sermon on the Mount. The Oxford Group also used the term A among other names, when referring to God. For example, the Big Book uses the word A when referring to the Creator Yahweh, our God and the context shows that this usage and name came from the Bible. traces came from the Lord’s Prayer or from other portions of the Bible. thinking or can be found in its languageC whether the A.A. But there are a few concepts and phrases in the Lord’s Prayer itself which either epitomize A.A. And these writers extracted a good many teachings, prayer guides, and theological ideas from Lord’s Prayer verses in the Sermon. Bob studied specific commentaries on the Sermon by Oswald Chambers, Glenn Clark, Emmet Fox, and E. Bob and His Library, 3 rd ed., The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual Growth, 7 th ed.ĭr. Many Oxford Group books discussed the sermon as did many of the daily devotionals the early AAs used-devotionals such as The Upper Room and The Runner’s Bible. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, supra, pp.310-311. (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1998) DR. Stanley Jones (NY: The Abingdon Press, 1931) The Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox (NY: Harper & Row, 1934) The Lord’s Prayer and Other Talks on Prayer from The Camps Farthest Out by Glenn Clark (MN: Macalester Park Publishing Co., 1932) and I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes by Glenn Clark (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1937). Audio Tape #2451).ĭiscussing every facet of the sermon- e.g.: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by Oswald Chambers (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Ltd., n.d.) The Christ of the Mount: A Working Philosophy of Life by E. Study it over and over, and you’ll see the whole program in there” (Glen Cove, NY: Glenn K. If you want to know where this program came from, read the fifth, sixth, seventh chapter of Matthew. Also, in a talk given to AAs in Glenarden, Maryland, on August 8, 1981, Clarence said: “This program emanates from the Sermon on the Mount and the Book of James. Bob’s words about the Bible and the three essential parts. Bob’s sponsee Clarence Snyder, got sober in February of 1938 and later became the AA with the greatest amount of sobriety. history meetings, including one at A.A.’s San Diego International Convetion in 1995. Bob’s son “Smitty” pointed to the importance of James, the Sermon, and Corinthians and I heard Smitty repeat his statement at several large A.A. Bob stressed over and over that the “the parts we found absolutely essential were” the Book of James, the Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians 13 (e.g. He also said the older members were convinced that the answer to their problems was in the Good Good.” Dr. We got them as a result of our study of the Good Book” ( DR. I had nothing to do with the writing of them” but that “We already had the basic ideas, though not in terse and tangible form. Bob said quite clearly: “I didn’t write the Twelve Steps. Bob: “If someone asked him a question about the program, his usual response was: ‘What does it say in the Good Book?’” ( DR. Bob pointed out that there were no twelve steps at the beginning, that “our stories didn’t amount to anything to speak of,” and that they were “convinced that the answer to their problems was in the Good Book” ( DR. Bob “put his foot on the rung of a dining-room chair, identified himself as an alcoholic, and began reading the Sermon on the Mount” ( DR. Grapevine article states that at a meeting led by Dr. Bob had no hesitancy about reading from the Bible and reading from it this sermon at meetings. NY: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1980, p. As A.A.’s own literature reports: “He cited the Sermon on the Mount as containing the underlying spiritual philosophy of A.A.” ( DR. Bob said several times that Jesus’ sermon on the mount contained the underlying philosophy of A.A. The Sermon on the Mount had a different history in early A.A.
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