Mission
Statement
Many Paths to One Fellowship is an organization whose primary goal is to continue carrying the original message intended by its cofounders Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith. The original intention is stated in the Foreword of the First Edition …”To show other alcoholics PRECISELY HOW WE HAVE RECOVERED is the main purpose of this book”.
The main object of the book as stated in “We Agnostics” (page 57 in the first edition) “Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself, which will solve your problem”.
By working the twelve step process as outlined in the Big Book, the assumption is: no spiritual experience - no recovery. There are not a number of different results from working the Steps; there is one result - and that is a spiritual experience. To the first members, spiritual experience meant that God as you understand him had transformed your life - directly, tangibly - and turned it around. To continue carrying this message is our primary purpose.
It is vital to the survival of our Fellowship that we make certain the people coming to us for help (frequently from outside enterprises) are made aware of the Big Book, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions as possibly their only hope for survival from alcoholism. If we fail to guide them to our program of recovery, our Fellowship will not survive. Our future is dependent upon a continuing stream of recovered alcoholics.
We need to show all the newcomers that we love them as we were loved and we have a way of life we wish to share. If our meetings are nothing but drunk-a-logs and meaningless chatter, we are not showing them “How It Works”. In A.A. meetings, we reach out with love and tell the new people, “These are the Steps we took” and “We had to go to any lengths”.
As Bill cautioned, in order to preserve the fellowship that so many owe their very lives to, they must continue to learn from their experiences and it is the responsibility of every member to ensure that this is done. This is why it is so important that AA remembers its history and passes this knowledge on. This was the primary motivating factor why I wrote the book and founded the Many Paths Organization.
“Those who forget to remember are doomed to repeat”-Anonymous
Many Paths to One Fellowship is an organization whose primary goal is to continue carrying the original message intended by its cofounders Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith. The original intention is stated in the Foreword of the First Edition …”To show other alcoholics PRECISELY HOW WE HAVE RECOVERED is the main purpose of this book”.
The main object of the book as stated in “We Agnostics” (page 57 in the first edition) “Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself, which will solve your problem”.
By working the twelve step process as outlined in the Big Book, the assumption is: no spiritual experience - no recovery. There are not a number of different results from working the Steps; there is one result - and that is a spiritual experience. To the first members, spiritual experience meant that God as you understand him had transformed your life - directly, tangibly - and turned it around. To continue carrying this message is our primary purpose.
It is vital to the survival of our Fellowship that we make certain the people coming to us for help (frequently from outside enterprises) are made aware of the Big Book, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions as possibly their only hope for survival from alcoholism. If we fail to guide them to our program of recovery, our Fellowship will not survive. Our future is dependent upon a continuing stream of recovered alcoholics.
We need to show all the newcomers that we love them as we were loved and we have a way of life we wish to share. If our meetings are nothing but drunk-a-logs and meaningless chatter, we are not showing them “How It Works”. In A.A. meetings, we reach out with love and tell the new people, “These are the Steps we took” and “We had to go to any lengths”.
As Bill cautioned, in order to preserve the fellowship that so many owe their very lives to, they must continue to learn from their experiences and it is the responsibility of every member to ensure that this is done. This is why it is so important that AA remembers its history and passes this knowledge on. This was the primary motivating factor why I wrote the book and founded the Many Paths Organization.
“Those who forget to remember are doomed to repeat”-Anonymous
