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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