Buy Books
These books provide the complete background for
the Creating a Sober World Conversation
Absolutely Sober: A History Principles And Practice of The Destruction of Self-Contentedness
Nothing: A Sober Discussion of Being and Non-Being
This Book tells the story of the Oxford Group Founder, Frank Buchman's encounter with the Cross of Christ at the English Keswick Convention of 1908
Bill Wilson admitted to being nothing on page 13 of AA's Big Book. Other Spiritual realizers have come to know their own nothingness. Here you will come to know all there is to know about Nothing.
ARE YOU HIDING
OUT IN LIFE?
You could be addicted to under-being or under-earning. If you are, you will need to hit bottom. This book explains how you do that.
Hitting Bottom In
Underearners Anonymous
Creating a Sober World
A First-Century Apostolic Church
for the Twenty-First
Frank Buchman Apostle to the 20th century
Andrew D. Founder of Underearners Anonymous (UA)
Jessie Penn-Lewis
John Nelson Darby
Additional Reading
Our Creating a Sober World Member is encouraged to read all AA Approved Book and all of Dick B's History of AA as well as the literature on our recommended reading list.
Recommended Reading List:
The Green Letters is the best way to come to to know our position in Christ. There is a short version and the longer Complete Green Letters. We have posted the short version which consists of the basic teaching in eighteen chapters at the link below.
On The Tail of a Comet details to life of Frank Buchman, the founder of the Oxford Group, the precursor of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The work of Creating a Sober World is really just another unfolding of Frank's vision.
This book is out of print and hard to get. You can access a pdf of this book at the link below.
Alcoholics Anonymous is the basic "how to" resource for Creating a Sober World. For those who have read Creating a Sober World this will need no further explanation.
The AA text is free to read off of the Alcoholics Anonymous web site. Link below:
Last, but not least, you need your very own copy of the You Version Bible App.
The You Version gives you instant access to scores of popular Bible translations. It also allows you to listen to the recorded versions.
You can download your very own copy of the app. at the link below:
About the Symposium*
The Symposium is conducted on a Friday evening and all day Saturday and Sunday.
The Course addresses four principal issues in each individual’s life.
Personal autonomy – Have I learned to say “No” to the negative influences in my life? Do I really have the freedom to say, “Yes” to the call of God on my life?
· What beliefs really guide me?
Not just my stated beliefs, but also the unconscious, unexamined vows that I have taken?
Is it really possible to do as Jesus asks: To love my enemies and do good to them that hate me and despitefully use me?
Is it even possible to do as He commands: Be ye therefore perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect?
The symposium begins by addressing the personal God-given strengths and gifts each participant brings to the world as given in the Book of Romans chapter 12 vs. 5-8 … to be sober according to the gifts he had given us:
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
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*Symposium (fr. GK syn- together + pinein-to rink)—to drink together.
The Practice of Perfection
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Matthew 5:48 KJV
Most participants who attend the weekend are already saved but they are not yet—what the Bible refers to as—sanctified. They are still dealing with the bondage to all sorts of bad habits and emotional baggage.
The Symposium weekend is committed to giving the attendee a glimpse of perfection. Perfection has always been a controversial topic. Most people never even think to strive for perfection as it seems nigh to impossible to ever achieve, given our dysfunctional fallen, self-centered natures.
The addiction recovery culture showed us that our lives could be perfectly managed and controlled by God—if only we could destroy self-centeredness:
Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all.
The Symposium will set the attendee on the path to the destruction of self-centeredness and on to a path of perfection.
Bill Wilson, founder of AA, in writing the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, said this about perfection:
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…it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by. So the difference between “the boys and the men” is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God.
We do not promise that our Symposium graduate will leave the weekend perfected, but we do promise that they will leave the course with the knowledge, skills, and a clear vision for the path that they then can follow to perfection, as God so wills it.
Sponsored by:
Creating A Sober World, Inc.
A Florida Non-Profit
501(c)(3) Corporation
The purpose of Creating a Sober World is to create a context for communication in which sobriety, as a global reality is an idea whose time has come.
What others have said:
· I was able to identify and free myself from my false guiding beliefs.
James C. — Tampa, FL
· I cleared out some buried emotions and false beliefs…long simmering anger does not rise up in me like it used to. I am more loving now.
M. Stevens – Lutz FL
· During the Symposium weekend, I came to realize that I don’t have to “fix it.”
Diane M. Tampa, FL
· Through the symposium I realized that my Guiding Belief was that I had to be GOD, never realizing what I put myself and those I loved through. In giving up that belief I could let others be who they were and didn’t have to “Run the World” any longer. What a freeing experience.
Mary S. Tampa, FL
Dates and Location
River of Life Church
North Nebraska Ave.
at 401 E. Chapman Road,
Tampa
Friday Night
November 1
7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Saturday
November 2
9:00 AM to 10:00 PM
Sunday
November 3
12:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Tuition:
Free
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