"It's not the meetings you make, it's the Steps you take"

[JayhawkSD]

11. A guy I sponsored years ago went to meeting every single day.

Sometimes twice a day. I could not get him to do a fourth step. He died drunk in a car crash.

How many times does the Big Book talk about "going to meetings?" How much does it talk about the steps?

My first sponsor said to me, "I don't want you to learn how to handle your drinking problem. I want you to become a person who does not have a drinking problem." Recovery is about becoming a different person, and going to meetings will not do that. The steps will do that.

Meetings are good. They are a huge help in performing the steps. It may even not be possible, for some people, to perform the steps at any meaningful level without going to meetings. But meetings, purely for the sake of meetings are totally insufficient.