A&E's Intervention

Just watched the latest episode of Intervention on A&E. I have to say I find them interesting. The girl Audrey I found especially interesting. She was basically psycholigically pressured to do something she didn’t want to do: i.e.; go to treatment. The alcoholic , whose name I forget, seemed more interested in being helped.

I guess these programs give the viewing audience hope and its good advertising for the interventionists and the drug treatment centers. They show 3 month follow ups and the intervenees seem to be doing well. Frankly, that doesn’t mean a whole lot to me. Id like to see how they are doing a year from now, or 5 years, or 10 years. Will they still be off alcohol and drugs then?

Not too much was said about Audrey’s lesbianism in the documentary except to mention it. .

Are these people really being helped? Well, they are getting off drugs/alcohol for a while but how about the underlying sin condition. How about Audrey’s lesbianism? Is she Going to have a spiritual awakening about that and give her life to Jesus Christ? Or is she just going to be get involved in a support program (Narcotics Anonymous) that accepts her lesbianism.?

Basically, these people on A&E intervention are being sent to secular programs. Most of the programs I am sure will be telling them they have a “disease”. My understanding is that a program cannot even be certified as a rehab center unless they accept the “disease concept”(I understand Teen Challenge recently lost their food stamp support for that very reason).

Don’t hold your breathe waiting for A&E to show someone being sent to a Christian Recovery program.