While this conference didn’t necessarily present me with new information I came away with both sober reminders and fresh encouragements.

There is no addictive personality…except the one we all possess.

We find much solidarity with our brothers and sisters struggling with addiction when we consider our own emotional imbalance.

We are not that different from our addicted brothers and sisters, and how we respond to powerlessness reveals it.

Self-reliance plagues us all and as such we are all prone to addictions.

Our common self-obsession makes us more like the addict than we realize.

There is an addict in all of us, and our common temptation towards perfectionism evidences it.

We are all addicts at one level, and our impulsive behaviors are reminders of this common temptation.

While we might not all become full-blown substance abusers, we are nonetheless addicts at heart.

Recovery Culture Churches are those who resist the temptation be “older brothers.”