Been wanting to create a place in here where Christians can share on some of the unique issues and struggles we may have in regards to our recovery. We are quite different as we are called to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind and strength yet we have this bosom sin that constantly is present. I did not get saved until my Mom passed away when i was around 40. I was clean the first year, but that voice (satan) came back for me and i believed him that i could control it and enjoy drink just like everyone else! 13 years later and i am on and off the wagon intermittently, sometimes only lasting a few days, other times a few weeks. Lately, getting very sick of this roller coaster so i am trying to fully surrender to my Lord Jesus Christ. I do not want this thread to turn into a debate about religion or Christianity though, that would be a different topic and thread. I have love and respect for all people regardless. I have been wanting to create this thread for a few weeks now but have been a little scared to but i decided i needed to.
I consider myself Christian non-denominational. I love God. God loves me. I’m just not as well versed in the scripture as some of y’all
Well, I’m a Christian but I can’t say that I necessarily was when I got sober. I believed in God & Jesus Christ. I even talked to them quite often… Mainly foxhole prayers… But when I finally surrendered my will to the care of God and came to the full realization that I am powerless over alcohol and that my life is unmanageable. It was a little bit easier to have a relationship with God and with Jesus after that. I was born into a Christian family but my father was Catholic and had me and my sister baptized Catholic and we attended Catholic School so my entire family on my mother’s side we’re Christian so they were a lot of disconnect in religious beliefs and even Little Things from how we say a prayer at mealtime. It made things really complicated for me as I got older I believed in many different things I believed in Mary as a holy figure I pray to Mary I prayed to Saints, and all the while certain people told me that I was wrong. To speed things up I recently at almost 4 years sober started attending a Christian University and after having a spiritual awakening have had this strong push and purpose in my life and this past summer while on vacation my cousin who is an ordained minister baptize me as a Christian in the Pacific Ocean. It was a very emotional experience and it was the public setting and people cheered and my family was present and I felt this overwhelming sense the freedom. I believe that people can get sober through religious practices I’ve seen it happen and I know that it’s possible but I’ve also seen people fail miserably at doing it just threw Church I also know a lot of people in AA who are very well known in their Church who also attend regular meetings and practice the 12 steps in the principles of AA and all of their fares because ultimately they go hand-in-hand. If you’re having trouble staying on the wagon I think first you really need to be true to yourself and admit the powerlessness you have over the disease and over the drink and only then can you seek help through whatever way you deem necessary. If there is a physical dependence I don’t recommend stopping by yourself and I would suggest you seek outside help first, but as a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and as a Christian I know what works for me and that’s attending meetings regularly working the 12 steps and helping other alcoholics to achieve sobriety without those things I’d still be drunk. Christian or not.
I am a committed Christian. A saved sinner, who still sins, and daily thanks Him for his grace and mercy.
IMHO, drinking is not a salvation issue. We are saved through faith in Jesus Christ. Alcoholism and abuse are the wages of drinking, a stumbling block that the evil one places in our path, a tool he uses to keep us from growing closer to the Almighty. The evil one uses the guilt and shame, the destruction of relationships, the loss of prosperity, and in some cases, physical freedom, to keep us rooted in the world, rather than in Heaven.
But my savior is stronger, and He has delivered me. I will never put those chains back on again.
Saved 
️ I came to know Christ when I was 5 years sober. My cousin & his wife are missionaries. They had two boys. Their youngest was 13years old at the time. Jacob, was his name. Jacob & a friend were riding bikes and trying to do some some bike tricks in a warehouse district. Jacob, tried to ride/jump his bike off a loading dock. No helmet, he flew over the handlebars and hit his head. He never woke up. They took him life support 3 days later.
My cousin & his wife live in Canada & when we arrived the funeral, I’d never seen two people more destroyed. They just wanted to crumple to the floor in agony & grief. I’ll never forget their faces, their grief, their devastation.
When I got back home. I began earnestly searching for Christ… I had questions…like how in the world could these two beautiful Christian parents lose their son? What God would do that?? I went to several Church’s, spoke with different Clergy & began reading The Bible.
It was during a phone call with my brother, (who had just sent me The Message) when he prayed with me, I felt a peace wash over me, a love like no other and I became a Christian from that moment forward. Best phone call of my life!
I am lost and fallen from grace. I have felt the power of God wash over my life before and it was simply miraculous.
I need Jesus now more than ever, and your honest prayers for this stranger on Talking Sober would be greatly appreciated.
My life is in shambles. I need your saving grace now God, because without You I am already dead.
I’m just a beggar in the presence of a King
I wish I could be so much more.
But if it’s true that You use broken things,
Well here I am Lord I’m all Yours
I was brought up in a Christian home, and I am a Christian. Although I no longer believe in organized religion. But I do have a strong belief in God.
I identify as a Christian but I don’t talk much about it here because I think my views and the congregations I worship with would be looked down on. I’m super new to the whole faith thing so I really hate when people are mean about it.
Edit: re-read it, I’m not an alcoholic so I’m def not who you are looking for. Carry on.
I read the Bible and in particular the New Testament teachings of Christ, I’m on John’s Gospel at the moment . There’s no better guide in my view.
Yesterday was the healing of the blind man, Christ restored his sight through his healing and I too was blind but now I can see. In my case I was blind drunk, now I am sober I can see things clearly and through the teachings of Christ I have developed a much closer contact with God.
United Church of Christ here.
I grew up in the Methodist Church and a Christian family. I’ve always believed in God, but for a very long time I felt so broken and messed up that I believed God was done with me. What an incredible gift it was to feel Him again - two nights after I got sober; standing in 39 degree rain with seven other people at my first AA meeting.
The door was locked, the lights were off, it was cold and spitting a rain/sleet mixture. I would have left, but a sober friend met me there. The two of us were standing shivering in the parking lot when another young guy in his early 30s came up to us and asked if we knew the door code. I told him (Jackson) that it was my first meeting, and he said he really needed a meeting. By that time four more folks had come up: a young Hispanic mother on probation, a sound guy in town to work a concert, a older homeless man and a guy about my age who was three days out of jail. Jackson told them that it was my first meeting. They stayed…in the rain and sleet…and had a meeting in that parking lot, because they didn’t want to let me down. By the third share I felt a warm sense of peace that I had never felt before - ever. And I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that God was with me.
That is awesome, i truly believe that we are saved by grace through faith, which is not of ourselves, but a gift from God. Its truly inspiring hearing from everyone, i have a lot to learn from you all. I have all the Bible knowledge, i just lack the obedience to walk away from this poison once and for all.
Me too, I love it because Baptists are hard core straight up KJ Bible with nothing sugar coated.
I know God exists bc he’s the only one I asked to keep me sober.
He’s the only one who cares about us, people disappoint, but God never does, His Word tells us so…
Father God, please rain down your grace, mercy and love on this child of yours. Renew a right Spirit in him and make him white as snow. Give hime the strength and wisdom to live a life that is Holy and pleasing to you, in Jesus name I pray, Amen and Amen!
Christian…being renewed day by day!
https://biblehub.com/niv/2_corinthians/4.htm
Thank you kindly, friend.
