All Twelve Steps

THE TWELVE STEPS--all twelve--have been my salvation for almost thirty-four years of continuous sobriety. I'm concerned when I hear members say they have been sober for nine years and have not gone past the Third Step. One man I know states he has made no effort to go past the First Step in seven years in the Fellowship. He follows that up by saying he simply relies on his higher power to sustain him--a higher power he found in AA meetings.