-25 The Second Step question

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Please answer, one at a time, yes or no After you have answered, please be seated.
[Have each newcomer answer the question.]
Thank you. According to the Big Book authors, those who answered yes to this question have taken Step Two.
Now, let’s move onto the Third Step.
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Step 3:
Step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God as we understood Him.
This Step begins with the third paragraph on page 60. How do we know that Well, in this case, the Big Book authors tell us:
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(page 60, para. 3, line 1)
“Being convinced, we were at Step Three, . . .”
(A.A., p. 60, para. 3, line Convinced of what If we’ve taken the Second Step, we believe that ab Power greater than ourselves” can restore us to sanity. But, even though we may believe that the “Power of
God”
is the answer, this doesn’t necessarily mean we are willing to accept this solution. In order to recover from alcoholism, we must make a decision to put this Power to work in our lives.
On pages 62 and 63, the Big Book authors show us how to become God directed. But, first they disclose how operating on self-will keeps us separated from this “inner resource.” In
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Step 2, 3 and 4
the fourth paragraph on page 60, they explain that, when we live on self-will, we are like actors trying to control every detail of a play:

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