And he asked Sam to speak at the A.A. Conventions in St. Louis and in Long Beach. Dr. Bob and Bill studied James's Varieties of Religious Experience and specifically mentioned it in the Big Book. Let me enumerate some of these rediscoveries. First, the importance of the individual in religious work. . . . Therefore you will find this fellowship tackling personal sin in all of its forms with that confidence which belongs to all those who have found Christ the Cure.
Conversion seems very remote to most people.
Surrender is a handle by which to take hold of it. By talking out fully a person's sins with them, negative or positive, by sharing your own when it will help, you can pack the idea of surrender full of meaning. . . . Fourth, guidance as the continuing relationship with our Lord. Divine guidance is perhaps the most important rediscovery of the movement. Sixth, the rediscovery of Christian fellowship upon a deep level. . . .