Thursday Big Book Step Study

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Step Four pgs. 46:2 – end 48:2
Words:
46:0
1. alibi
2. ad infinitum
47:1
3. vengeful
47:2
4. erratic
48:2
5. maladjustments

Writing Assignment:
46:3
1. What was some of your self-justifications you used during your drinking/addictive substance days?
1a. If you are sober today or have been sober for a while what are some of your self- justifications for continuing to act on your character defects?
1b.If you have started or are not writing your Fourth Step what are some of your self-justifications that you are using for not starting or not finishing it?

2. What conditions drove you to drink/or using addictive substances?
2a. How did you try to correct those conditions?
2b. What happened after you found out you could not correct those conditions?
2d. Did it ever occur to you that you needed to change yourself to correct these conditions?
2e. Is there any conditions that are left?

47:1
3. How long did it take you in your Step One fellowship to learn that vengeful resentments, self-pity and unwarranted pride were poison to your spiritual relationship to the God of your understanding?

4. Have you started to get a perspective on yourself which is another way of you gaining humility?

48:1
5. Are you of the depressive type or are you of the power-driver type of personality?
5a.Or with the help of Twelve Steps has your personality changed?

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Step Four

42:1
1. instincts
2. society
42:2
3. tyrannize
42:3
4. vigorous
43:0
5. warped
44:1
6. imperious

Writing Assignment (Continued to finish your Step Four)
No writing assignment

If you do want to write;
Go through each paragraph (42:1 – end 45:0) in this reading and at the end ask what this paragraph is saying to you?