Why BG2G Church?
The 6 Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith
1. Repentance from Dead Works
2. Faith Toward God
3. Doctrine of Baptisms (Water/Holy-Spirit/Fire)
4. Laying on of Hands
5. Resurrection of the Dead
6. Eternal Judgment
2. Faith Toward God
3. Doctrine of Baptisms (Water/Holy-Spirit/Fire)
4. Laying on of Hands
5. Resurrection of the Dead
6. Eternal Judgment
THE 12 STEPS
That keep an individual right with God.
That keep an individual right with God.
1. We admit we are powerless over sin, and that we have a recurring need to be rescued.
2. We believe that God is real and that God sent Jesus to restore us to sanity, stability, strength, power, peace, joy and love.
3. We make a decision to turn our will and our life over to Jesus as our Personal Lord and Savior.
4. We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Become entirely ready to have God remove all our defects of character.
7. Humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
9. Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it.
11. Seek God through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Him, praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry it out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we share our experience strength and hope with others, and practice these principles in all our affairs.
2. We believe that God is real and that God sent Jesus to restore us to sanity, stability, strength, power, peace, joy and love.
3. We make a decision to turn our will and our life over to Jesus as our Personal Lord and Savior.
4. We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Become entirely ready to have God remove all our defects of character.
7. Humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
9. Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it.
11. Seek God through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Him, praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry it out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we share our experience strength and hope with others, and practice these principles in all our affairs.
THE 12 TRADITIONS
That keep a fellowship alive and free.
That keep a fellowship alive and free.
Here at BG2G, we believe that there has never been a more urgent NEED for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity of Christian brothers and sisters. Believers must work together and hang together or else we will fall away in compromise or become so weak as to deny our faith.
By understanding and applying the “12-Steps and 12-Traditions” of Alcoholics Anonymous, in everyday Christian-fellowship, we believe the Church will stay whole and survive the dark times coming to the USA.
The “long form” of AA Traditions as first published in 1946 have been reworded in such a way as to apply specifically to BG2G fellowship groups.
1. Each member of BG2G is but a small part of the Christian Church. BG2G fellowship groups must live or most believers will fall away when persecution comes our way. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority--a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. Our membership ought to include all who need God, honor Truth, and want the 12 Step Way of Life. BG2G membership should never depend upon money or conformity. Any two people gathered together for the purpose of Christian fellowship, education or worship may call themselves a BG2G Group, provided that, as a group, they have no other objective.
4. With respect to its own affairs, each BG2G group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience. But when its plans concern the welfare of neighboring groups also, those groups ought to be consulted. No group or individual should ever take any action that might greatly affect BG2G as a whole without conferring with delegates of the greater whole. On such issues our common welfare is paramount.
5. Each BG2G group ought to be a spiritual entity HAVING BUT ONE PRIMARY PURPOSE—to grow in the knowledge of the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom God has sent. (John 17:3)
6. Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim. We think, therefore, that any considerable property of genuine use to the BG2G fellowship should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual. A BG2G group, as such, should never go into business. Secondary aids to Members, such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups. Hence such facilities ought not to use the BG2G name. Their management should be the sole responsibility of those people who financially support them. For clubs, Member managers are usually preferred. But hospitals, as well as other places of recuperation, ought to be well outside BG2G--and medically supervised. While a BG2G group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied. A BG2G group can bind itself to no one.
7. The BG2G group themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members. We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of BG2G is highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies; that acceptance of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying any obligation whatever, is unwise. Then too, we view with much concern those BG2G treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated BG2G purpose. Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
8. BG2G should remain forever non-professional. We define professionalism as the occupation of providing spiritual mentoring, teaching, or counseling for fees or hire. But we may employ fellow members where they are going to perform a service for which we might otherwise have to engage non-members. Such services may be well recompensed. But our usual bible studies and "12th Step" work is never to be paid for.
9. Each BG2G groups needs the least possible organization. Rotating leadership is the best. The small group may elect its Secretary, the large group its Rotating Committee, and the groups of a large Metropolitan area their Central or Intergroup Committee, which often employs a full-time Secretary. All such representatives are to be guided in the spirit of service, for true leaders in BG2G are but trusted and experienced servants of the whole. They derive no real authority from their titles; they do not govern. Universal respect is the key to their usefulness.
10. BG2G as a whole, has no opinion on outside controversial issues--particularly those of politics, drugs, or sectarian religion. BG2G opposes no one. Concerning such matters every member is autonomous and assumes full responsibility for their own behavior and speech at all times.
11. Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity. We think members ought to avoid sensational advertising. Our names and pictures as BG2G members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed. Our public relations should be guided by the principle of attraction rather than promotion. There is never need to praise ourselves. We feel it better to let our friends recommend us.
12. And finally, we of BG2G believe that the principle of Anonymity has an immense spiritual significance. It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
By understanding and applying the “12-Steps and 12-Traditions” of Alcoholics Anonymous, in everyday Christian-fellowship, we believe the Church will stay whole and survive the dark times coming to the USA.
The “long form” of AA Traditions as first published in 1946 have been reworded in such a way as to apply specifically to BG2G fellowship groups.
1. Each member of BG2G is but a small part of the Christian Church. BG2G fellowship groups must live or most believers will fall away when persecution comes our way. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority--a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. Our membership ought to include all who need God, honor Truth, and want the 12 Step Way of Life. BG2G membership should never depend upon money or conformity. Any two people gathered together for the purpose of Christian fellowship, education or worship may call themselves a BG2G Group, provided that, as a group, they have no other objective.
4. With respect to its own affairs, each BG2G group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience. But when its plans concern the welfare of neighboring groups also, those groups ought to be consulted. No group or individual should ever take any action that might greatly affect BG2G as a whole without conferring with delegates of the greater whole. On such issues our common welfare is paramount.
5. Each BG2G group ought to be a spiritual entity HAVING BUT ONE PRIMARY PURPOSE—to grow in the knowledge of the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom God has sent. (John 17:3)
6. Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim. We think, therefore, that any considerable property of genuine use to the BG2G fellowship should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual. A BG2G group, as such, should never go into business. Secondary aids to Members, such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups. Hence such facilities ought not to use the BG2G name. Their management should be the sole responsibility of those people who financially support them. For clubs, Member managers are usually preferred. But hospitals, as well as other places of recuperation, ought to be well outside BG2G--and medically supervised. While a BG2G group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied. A BG2G group can bind itself to no one.
7. The BG2G group themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members. We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of BG2G is highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies; that acceptance of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying any obligation whatever, is unwise. Then too, we view with much concern those BG2G treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated BG2G purpose. Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
8. BG2G should remain forever non-professional. We define professionalism as the occupation of providing spiritual mentoring, teaching, or counseling for fees or hire. But we may employ fellow members where they are going to perform a service for which we might otherwise have to engage non-members. Such services may be well recompensed. But our usual bible studies and "12th Step" work is never to be paid for.
9. Each BG2G groups needs the least possible organization. Rotating leadership is the best. The small group may elect its Secretary, the large group its Rotating Committee, and the groups of a large Metropolitan area their Central or Intergroup Committee, which often employs a full-time Secretary. All such representatives are to be guided in the spirit of service, for true leaders in BG2G are but trusted and experienced servants of the whole. They derive no real authority from their titles; they do not govern. Universal respect is the key to their usefulness.
10. BG2G as a whole, has no opinion on outside controversial issues--particularly those of politics, drugs, or sectarian religion. BG2G opposes no one. Concerning such matters every member is autonomous and assumes full responsibility for their own behavior and speech at all times.
11. Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity. We think members ought to avoid sensational advertising. Our names and pictures as BG2G members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed. Our public relations should be guided by the principle of attraction rather than promotion. There is never need to praise ourselves. We feel it better to let our friends recommend us.
12. And finally, we of BG2G believe that the principle of Anonymity has an immense spiritual significance. It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.