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title	:	Practice These Principles ; : And, What Is the Oxford Group?
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publisher	:	Hazelden Publishing
isbn10 | asin	:	1568381506
print isbn13	:	9781568381503
ebook isbn13	:	9780585322131
language	:	English
subject	Oxford Group, Alcoholism--treatment, Alcoholics--Rehabilitation.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	HV5275.P72 1997eb
ddc	:	616.861
subject	:	Oxford Group, Alcoholism--treatment, Alcoholics--Rehabilitation.

Page iii To my friend Frank Buchman

Page v Book II Contents The Oxford Group 1 Sin 15 Sharing for Confession and Witness 23 Surrender 35 Restitution 47 Guidance 57 The four Absolutes: 65 1. Absolute Honesty 65 2. Absolute Purity 75 3. Absolute Unselfishness 83 4. Absolute Love 93 The World 103 You 109

Page vii Foreward The very last thing that the writer of this book would wish is that he should become widely known as a prophet of the Oxford Group Movement. Even less, if that were possible, would he claim any special authority as an exponent of its principles. For both reasons I am sure that he is right in his desire that his book should be an anonymous exposition of the principles which underlie the experience of new strength and new vision through which he has been passing. It has been written, as his friends know, with a heat of conviction which makes it rather a living document than a carefully guarded treatise. It is, for those who can understand, a piece of direct and first-hand evidence for the ways of God's working in a human life. Yet, since anonymity carries its own risks of misunderstanding, I am glad to have the opportunity of adding this brief foreword. Characteristically individual as this book is, it yet covers so much of the ground of the experience upon which the fellowship of the Group is based, and in a form at once so systematic and so readable, that I believe that it may, under God, be used very widely to help others to understand that fellowship better, and to bring home to them that challenge of the living Christ for which and for which alone the fellowship stands. L. W. GRENSTED ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD

Page 1 The Oxford Group 'For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.' 2 TIMOTHY I. 7

Page 3 The Oxford Group 'And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: and vow sons and your daughter shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams'. ACTS II. 17. You cannot belong to the Oxford Group. It has no membership list, subscriptions, badge, rules, or definite location. It is a name for a group of people who, from every rank, profession, and trade, in many countries, have surrendered their lives to God and who are endeavouring to lead a spiritual quality of life under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Oxford Group is not a religion; it has no hierarchy, no temples, no endowments; its workers have no salaries, no plans but God's Plan; every country is their country, every man their brother. They are Holy Crusaders in modern dress, wearing spiritual armour. Their aim is 'A New World Order for Christ, the King'. The Oxford Group is often confused in the minds of strangers with the Oxford Movement. The former which, by accident rather than by design, uses Oxford as the nominal centre for its activities in England, is a campaign for the renaissance of the practice among men of the truths of simple Christianity; the latter is a Catholic renaissance within the Church of England. The Oxford Group works within churches of all denominations, planning to bring those outside back into their folds

Page 4 and to re-awaken those within to their responsibilities as Christians. It advocates nothing that is not the fundamental basis of all Christian Faith, and takes no side in sectarian disputes. It seeks to enable us to use our beliefs to their best advantage for ourselves and for the world in general. This means living as near as we can, by God's help, to the life He has mapped out for us. When we diverge from His plan for us we can, by surrendering our lives to Him, get back to that plan again, and by our Christian endeavours to live as parallel as we can to Christ's life here on earth and, with God's Guidance to show us how we can best do that, we can continue on that plan and bring it to fruition.

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