Dear Brother James,
I have been in 12 step recovery meetings for almost a year and have stayed clean but it seems I cannot win with my sponsor. I've met someone who I like and my sponsor tells me I am not ready for a close relationship. Is this type of counseling in the Bible?
Mark
Dear Brother Mark,
No its not. And where there appears wisdom in theory to tell people no relationships for a year in reality it's imprisonment. I am not saying it is permissible to cross lines of intimacy that's reserved for marriage. I am saying right relationships are healthy and taught in Gods Word. We are in a time where dark and ungodly counsel is given in recovery programs and sadly by many Christians. Gods Word warns us:
1Ti 4:1-6 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
Please see link to 12 Step Heresy.
In Christs Love,
Brother James, OIC
