This article was first written in 1987. It was first published in the Reformed Herald in 1989. It appears here with only minor revisions.
Since I first posted this essay on the web in 1999, it has generated
more response than I expected. Before you write to complain that I have
misrepresented AA or to tell me how much AA has helped you or to give me
sources to read on the history of AA, please note that this is not my
current field of research nor will it be any time soon. Please note that
this essay is not intended as a personal criticism nor does it intend
to deny that God is free to work as he wills. I understand that some
have been helped by AA. That fact, however, does not change the will of
God revealed in Holy Scripture (Deut 29:29). That God has used AA to
bring one to faith in Jesus is a cause for thanks but it is not a reason
to withhold criticism of AA. This essay is intended primarily to
encourage confessional Reformed and Presbyterian churches to take up
their responsibility to love sinners. Revised February, 2006. Continue at Scott Clark
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