Join Joe McDonald as he reads from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, diving into the transformative process of Steps 5, 6, & 7. Joe emphasizes the importance of not just reading the Big Book like a novel but truly understanding and experiencing its instructions and insights.

“They read it like a novel and they don’t know all the instructions and all the experiences described. Everything that happened to them as a result of the actions they took is written down in detail, precisely how they recovered in this book. And unless someone unpacks it for you, you cannot read it. I read it for years and didn’t read it because I didn’t realize I was supposed to experience it because someone had to show me precisely how they recovered. So that’s why we do what we do. Okay, so having made our personal inventory, what shall we do about it ...