The Study Format of the chapters that are reviewed during the cycle of the Big Book Study Group meetings in thier specified orders. This example is given as a guideline for the reading of the chapters that specifically outline a program of recovery according to the steps and the specific instructions given to complete those steps. A group choosing not to consider themselves a Big Book Step Study meeting can choose to alter or adopt other chapters.

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Good evening, everybody, this is the usual ________ night’s meeting of the _______ Men’s (and Women’s) Big Book Step Study Group and we will open the meeting in the usual manner with a moment of silence to do with as you wish.

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Big Book Step Study meetings work. They work by being very structured and specific, providing clear-cut directions on how to recover from the disease of alcoholism. They work by putting the principles of AA ahead of our own (and other people’s) personalities, and by keeping one aim above all else: carrying the AA message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

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