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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Experience has often warned us that nothing can so
surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
2.
In either case, the group now has a so-called rotating committee, very sharply limited in its authority.
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Experience has often warned us that nothing can so
surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
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Two -- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
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2. For our group purpose
there is but one ultimate
authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
7.
Tradition Two -- "For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders
are but trusted servants;
they do not govern."
8.
"For our group purpose there
is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders
are but trusted servants;
they do not govern."
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Two -- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
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It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart.
12.
... authority for
A.A. world services should always ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
I. Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
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These practical folk then
read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.
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Six -- Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
19.
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member
can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere
be seen?
20.
... authority over
others; that it reach all ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion,
vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial
unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that
it never perform acts of government, and that,
like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and
action.
21.
4. With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible
to no other authority than its own conscience.
22.
Four -- With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.
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His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by people in authority; they result from his personal disobedience to spiritual principles.
24.
When told that our Society
has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, no board of directors who can cast an erring member into outer darkness, when indeed no A.A. can give
another a directive and
enforce obedience, our
friends gasp and exclaim, "This simply can't
be. There must be an angle somewhere."
25.
Very soon, though, his assumed authority to run everything begins to be shared with the first alcoholics he has helped.
26.
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?
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X. Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.
28.
Those of us belonging to a
religious denomination which requires confession must, and of course, will want to go to the properly appointed authority whose duty it is to receive it.
29.
... authority, with
the scope of such authority ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
X. Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.
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