Step Two:
“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
THE moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one.

Step One:
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course.

Step Twelve:
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Steps:

Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Eleven: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him,

Steps:

Eighth: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Ninth: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Seventh Step:
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Seventh Tradition:
Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

Sixth Step:
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Sixth Tradition:
An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to …

Fifth Step:
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Fifth Tradition:
Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

Practice These Principles . . .
TRADITION FOUR CHECKLIST

Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
1. Do I insist there are only a few correct ways of doing things in AA?

TRADITION THREE CHECKLIST
The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.
1. In my mind, do I prejudge some new AA members as losers?
2. Is there some kind of alcoholic whom I privately do not want in my AA group?