Perhaps you have already read my page about why the service structure is guaranteed to fail. I still believe this to be true, and anyone who does a Concepts workshop, in my experience, is totally full of shit. But just for fun, I am going to run through the Concepts and show you how they are simply the Traditions at the World Level if it could actually work, which it cannot, under Natural Law.
Concept 1:
Final responsibility and ultimate authority for AA world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.. IF it worked at this level, this would be Tradition 1 and 2, combined…
Yes – it should. But it does not. It is supposed to work through the Delegates. The delegates are all supposed to know how to use the Traditions. They are all supposed to be spiritually superior individuals who are all recovered and live in 10, 11, & 12 and who care and are willing to learn the Traditions, and put their egos aside and be super principled and be Courageous and willing to Stand UP for principle and not worry about looking good at all… but that’s not the way it is. The ultimate Authority of our World Services should come from God through the Traditions, through Group Conscience through the GSR also – stellar and principled individuals who use the Traditions in their groups to arrive at decisions and carry the voice of their groups to the District where their DCM’s then take the voice to the Assembly – to the Delegate, and then the Delegate takes that collective conscience to the Conference…
What a great idea, in Fantasyland…
How could we have bought this fairytale??? It’s impossible. Only someone who is not doing a regular nightly review or 10th step and telling the Truth could possibly believe this could ever happen, especially with alcoholics.
If regular people can’t do it in politics how can alcoholics ever accomplish this???
It does not happen, because passed the level of the GSR, the DCM cannot re-present the District and the Delegate cannot re-present the Area – each of these people presents themselves, and they are flawed and don’t stand up for principle, they like hot air blown up their asses and they want people to like them, so the staff and the Board of Trustees coerce the Delegates into voting the way they want them to vote using all types of manipulations, 
and then the ultimate authority is the Board of Trustees.
How to Think About Concept 1: Refer to page on How To Think… and How to think about Tradition 1.
1. Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.
Watch what you do and what you say because YOU may be the only copy of the Big Book somebody gets to read. You represent AA. You are AA to every single person you meet even if you don’t break your anonymity. Think about it. Do you want be attractive to the still suffering alcoholic or their family – in the office, on the road, in the diner, in the gas station – wherever you go, whatever you do – final responsibility for demonstrating these principles falls on your shoulders…
p.14 Alcoholics Anonymous, “My friend had emphasized the absolute necessity of demonstrating these principles in all my affairs. Particularly was it imperative to work with others as he had worked with me. Faith without works was dead, he said.”
p. 19 Alcoholics Anonymous, “A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs.”
p.97 Alcoholics Anonymous, “You have to act the Good Samaritan every day, if need be. It may mean the loss of many nights’ sleep, great interference with your pleasures, interruptions to your business. It may mean sharing your money and your home, counseling frantic wives and relatives, innumerable trips to police courts, sanitariums, hospitals, jails and asylums. Your telephone may jangle at any time of the day or night. Your wife may sometimes say she is neglected. A drunk may smash the furniture in your home, or burn a mattress. You may have to fight with him if he is violent. Sometimes you will have to call a doctor and administer sedatives under his direction. Another time you may have to send for the police or an ambulance. Occasionally you will have to meet such conditions.”
p.100, Alcoholics Anonymous “Both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. If you persist, remarkable things will happen. When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God’s hands were better than anything we could have planned. Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!…If you have been successful in solving your own domestic problems, tell the newcomer’s family how that was accomplished. In this way you can set them on the right track without becoming critical of them. The story of how you and your wife settled your difficulties is worth any amount of criticism.”
p. 102 Alcoholics Anonymous, “Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful. You should not hesitate to visit the most sordid spot on earth on such an errand. Keep on the firing line of life with these motives and God will keep you unharmed.”
Anonymous Alcoholics 