“I was to test my thinking by the new God-consciousness within. Common sense would thus become uncommon sense.” (Chapter 1, Big Book)
Most change I bring about or seek to bring about, in my life, in my home group, or in the fellowship, comes from being disaffected, and this will come from a negative reaction: a rejection of the status quo, with the cry, ‘This should not be so!’
Occasionally I’m right and external change is legitimate.
Whilst there remains a scintilla of negative emotion around the status quo, however, there is no way of knowing whether I’m guided by God or simply trying to change something external in order to change how I feel.
Once I arrive at peace, it’s rare for the change initially conceived to be necessary.
The same goes when I observe others trying to change things (in my life, in theirs, in the home group, or in the fellowship): the question is always what is actually motivating the proposal. Almost anything can be argued rationally, however nonsensical. What is needed therefore is not common sense but uncommon sense: direct divine revelation of God’s will, which requires me to have relinquished my own interests in the situation.