Step 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Why do people keep going to AA meetings even after years and years of sobriety? Here are a few reasons.
They go because they feel safe.
I have heard this from virtually everybody in AA. Their safest place is at the meeting. At the meeting is the only place they are free from temptation to give in to their addiction, so if they are feeling particularly pressed, they get to the nearest meeting.
They go because they feel useful.
One of our readers has written’: “I go to meetings to meet the newcomer — the new person that is going to walk through the door, with that deer-in-the-headlights look. I love to welcome them and give them the 6 magic words: ‘You are going to be alright.’” This is truly grace turned outward.
They go because they are working on their lives in an environment where everyone else is doing the same thing.
Someone recently told me, “No one makes you do anything. You do everything on your own free will.” That’s freeing, and it’s also encouraging. It makes you want to work on yourself.
They go because they feel empowered.
This is the power of God. This is what happens when you give up. You surrender your life to God and you discover His Spirit is there to give you what you need to follow Him.
They go because these are the people who know all about their wrongs and they don’t care.
This creates a unique bond, unlike anything you can find anywhere else. The transparency and vulnerability creates a shared unity. No one’s going to be shocked. No one’s going to be rejected. When everyone knows what it means to hit bottom, there’s nothing that’s off limits. There’s a full spectrum of life to share.
John Fischer The Catch 
Why isn’t church like this? There have been a few times – very few – that I have felt like this at a church gathering. It should always be there…..
I was a Church going and Church educated person for alot of years. I was raised in a drinking family. My drinking got worse and better and worse and better over the years. I thought I found the love of my life while attending a Lutheran college in the late 70’s. The night we met She was stoned and I was drunk. She stopped getting high but I continued to drink. After we parted ways I stopped drinking for about a one and a half years. I got really involve with the fellowship on campus. One night I got the idea that one beer wouldn’t hurt me. I first learned about the 12 steps in 1980. But I did not think i was that bad. I was arrested for DUI Nov. 1986. My first step was in Jan.1987. I thought the steps were just to get sober and stay sober. I have discovered that they are a 12 step process of developing a relationship with God. Like people say It aint about religion it’s about relationship. Little by slowly we abandon our lives to God. He will change us into the person He has plans for. I have been on this journey over 30 years. What a long strange trip it’s been.
Bless you, Tom. And your story is still being written.