"GOD AS WE UNDERSTAND HIM" — regardless of how you understand Higher Power, you're welcome in SA! It's not our various concepts of God but our willingness to surrender (or learn to surrender) to a power greater than ourselves that unites us in our common desire for sexual sobriety.
When I first came into the Program, I had a problem with the italicized qualifier on God, “as we understood Him” (SA, 208). Now I see it as the best idea of the Twelve Steps.
I’m Gene T., and I am humbled and very grateful to be sober in SA since December 30, 2008. And by God’s grace, I’m the committee chair for our International Convention in Dallas this summer (July 2025).
