Sam declined, but Bill did send Sam a copy of the multi-lith manuscript of the Big Book before the Big Book was published in 1939. Later, Bill asked Sam to write articles for the Grapevine. 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. 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. . Divine guidance is perhaps the most important rediscovery of the movement. Sixth, the rediscovery of Christian fellowship upon a deep level. . . . I suggested that we kneel down out of reverence toward the Unknown, and then that he say exactly what he felt- not pretending anything he didn't believe but exposing himself to whatever creative force runs through existence. . . .