From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EFFECTIVENESS occurs
7 times
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1.
... effectiveness?
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
2.
... effectiveness.
BB p.84,
Into Action
Our
next function is to
grow in
understanding
and
effectiveness.
3.
... effectiveness.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
4.
... effectiveness and
permanent unity.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Therefore, no
society of
men
and
women ever had a more
urgent need for
continuous effectiveness
and
permanent unity.
5.
... effectiveness in
helping alcoholics.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
6.
... effectiveness of
the whole A.A. program will ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In
fact, the
effectiveness of
the
whole A.A. program will
rest upon how
well and
earnestly we have
tried to
come to "a
decision to
turn our will and
our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood
Him."
7.
... effectiveness would
be increased if we did.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
None of us makes a
sole vocation of this
work, nor do
we
think its effectiveness would be
increased if we did.
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