The purpose of Under the Olive Tree is to show how God’s Word can be found in many of the spiritual principles used for recovering alcoholics and addicts. All that is needed is an open mind and the desire for a deeper relationship with God.
Each chapter of this book begins with a fictitious short story of a family who lived around the time of Jesus, each revealing their brokenness and how God intervenes. Within each story, the modern traits of the disease of alcoholism can be identified using different personalities living over 2,000 years ago. Their character defects and struggles in life are the same as ours today.
My intention is to introduce the reader to the idea that all spiritual concepts used to treat alcoholism—or any other form of addiction—can be traced back to the oldest source for recovery, the Holy Bible.
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