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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Workshop: Joe and Charlie Big Book - Part 8 of 8 (2003)

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This is a very late version of the Joe and Charlie Big Book workshops recorded in 2003, the audio quality is excellent. If you have never heard a J & C workshop I would encourage you to give it a listen, there is a lot here. There is also a 4th step worksheet to accompany it, if you would like a copy you can download it from google drive here: https://scast.us/jc4th This is part 8 of 8, it jumps right in from the end of yesterdays post. Joe McQ and Charlie P met in 1973, they instantly discovered their mutual fascinations with AA's Big Book. The study they met for regularly became something they presented at meetings, eventually becoming this workshop. At the AA International Convention in New Orleans in 1980, Wesley P, organized a lunch for 1,500 AA members from all over the world and gave away 100 Joe & Charlie workshop tape sets as door prizes. Invitations exploded, and within a couple of years Joe & Charlie were presenting about 36 seminars a year worldwide. The forum is about half way set up and I should have it live sometime next week, I will post the url as soon as its done. If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/events Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2500+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in

0:11.2

podcast format.

0:12.2

We're an ad-free podcast and if you enjoy listening,

0:15.0

please help us be self-supporting by visiting

0:17.0

sobercast.com, look for the donate link

0:20.0

and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.

0:22.0

We hope you enjoy the podcast.

0:23.7

Have a great day.

0:24.7

Experience is taking place as we progress through the steps. We don't have to wait until we get to step 12 to get something out of this thing.

0:37.0

Every action step, there is a definite, definite positive reaction to it, a result of it.

0:45.0

Page 76.

0:50.0

If we can answer to our satisfaction, we then look at step six.

0:57.0

We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable.

1:02.0

Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted or

1:06.8

objectionable? Can he now take them all everyone? If we still cling to something we will not let go we

1:15.5

ask God to help us be willing and that's all of step six and if you'll notice in

1:22.3

that paragraph on the step six he didn't say a thing about defects of character.

1:27.0

He did say those things which we have admitted are objectionable.

1:32.0

Now surely, surely, surely, as we took our

1:37.7

inventory and we took step five and we looked over into that fifth column, and we could see that old selfish dishonest,

1:46.2

self-seeking frightened, inconsiderate character that we had become to living a life run on self-will, when we could see that those are the things that caused

1:57.3

us to do the things to set the ball rolling and hurt other people.

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