Originally Posted by AnvilheadII

or is it wrong to want to be a light in the darkness???

i'm not sure that we are supposed to nominate ourselves as The Lantern nor to determine upon whom our Light shall Shine. basically you are still trying to GET him to SEE the light.

that's not how it works...Step 12 says that having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we TRIED to carry the message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

..in the Twelve Steps, where people learn about God through their own experiences with him, there is no need to "persuade" with theology or verbal arguments. We let pain do the persuading, because we know that it is only through pain that the hunger for healing comes that will make us ready to admit our powerlessness. We know that until the pain of our lives was greater than the fear of swallowing our pride and going for help, we were not hungry enough for healing to go for it through the Twelve Steps...from A Hunger for Healing, by J. Keith Miller, p. 196, 199, 210

In a similar vein, in Matthew is the passage about "carrying the message"

And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

and from the Sermon on the Mount:
Even so let your light shine before men, that they may
see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

we don't get to pick who to save. who to convert. who to get sober. who sees the light.