Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
God have mercy.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
So when it's such a great instruction, such great preparation, because when you are stripped of the thing that you're clinging to, when you have to let go of that false hand, you are confronted with your own fallibility, your own desperation and your own brokenness like never before.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Now, but that's not the end of the story with the 12 steps.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
The 12 steps says, right, one, powerless over drugs and alcohol, life's unmanageable, quit it.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Two, believe it's possible.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
came to believe that the power greater than yourself could restore you to sanity.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
So you open your mind to the idea that there's another way.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Now people secularize that necessarily because it's the spirituality, a power greater than yourself is so evident and obvious.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
And we live in such sort of, sometimes I think such dead and atheistic times that people have to say, well, look,
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Bob and Dave and Carol, they're not drinking and they were worse than you.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
What, you think they're lying?
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Yeah, I do think they're lying actually.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
And then you overcome that and you see, oh my word, no, they're not lying.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
They did it.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Three, made a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God as I understood it, as you understand God.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Don't even try and push God down your throat or foist an idea of God upon you.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
But that's a pretty big proposition, hand your will and your life over to the care of God.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
I mean, that's a real letting go that I'm still trying to work in my own way now with my new understanding and deepening understanding in the sort of richer theology that the 12 steps provide a kind of a formative training wills version of actually.
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
Now, step four is an inventory process where you literally go through your life and go,
Pints With Aquinas
Overcoming Addiction, Allegations and Finding Christ (Russell Brand) | Ep. 578
What's every resentment you've ever had?