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Celebrate Recovery
The purpose of the Celebrate Recovery ministry is to fellowship
and celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through the 8 Recovery
principals. The experience allows us to “be changed.” By working and applying
these Biblical principles, we gin to grow spiritually. We become free from our
addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors. The freedom creates peace,
serenity, joy and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God
and others. As we progress through the program we discover our personal, loving
and forgiving Higher Power, Jesus Christ, the one and only true Higher Power.
Celebrate Recovery meets each Sunday Evening in the Family Life Center at
5:00 – 5:30 pm Fellowship & Meal
5:30 – 6:30 pm Worship & Testimonies
6:30 – 7:30 pm Open Share Groups
Things We Are:
A safe place to share
A refuge
A place of belonging
A place to care for others and be
cared for
Where respect is given to each member
Where confidentiality is highly
regarded
A place to learn
A place to grow and become strong
again
Where you can take off your mask
A place for healthy challenges and
healthy risks
A possible turning point in your life
Things
We Are NOT:
A place for selfish control
Therapy
A place for secrets
A place to look for dating
relationships
A place to rescue or be rescued
by others
A place for perfection
A long-term commitment
A place to judge others
A quick fix
8 Recovery Principles
Based on the
Beatitudes
Realize
I’m not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong
thing and my life is unmanageable.
“Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor.”
Earnestly
believe that God exists, that I matter to him, and that he has the power to help
me recover.
“Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
Consciously
choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
“Happy are the meek.”
Openly
examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to myself, to God, and to
someone I trust.
“Happy are the pure in heart.”
Voluntarily
submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove
my character defects.
“Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires.”
Evaluate
all my relationships; Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make
amends for harm I’ve done to others except when to do so would harm them or
others.
“Happy are the merciful.” “Happy are the peacemakers.”
Reserve
a daily time with God for self examination. Bible readings and prayer in order
to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
Yield
myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example
and by my words.
“Happy are those who are persecuted because the do what God requires.”
The 12 Steps and
Their Biblical Comparisons
1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and
compulsive behaviors. That our lives had become
unmanageable.
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful
nature For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out
(Romans 7:18)
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could
restore us to
sanity.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act
according to his good purpose. (Philippians 2:13)
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the
care of God.
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer
you bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual
act of worship. (Romans 12:1)
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the
LORD. (Lamentations 3:40)
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the
exact nature of our
wrongs.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for
each other so that you may be healed.
(James 5:16a)
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
(James 4:10)
7. Humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive
us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9)
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to
make amends to them all.
Do to others as you would have them do to you. (Luke 6:31)
9. Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except
when to do so would injure them or others.
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that
your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the
altar, First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer our gift.
(Matthew 5:23-24)
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong,
promptly admitted
it.
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that
you don’t fall! (I Corinthians 10:12)
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to
carry that out.
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. (Colossians
3:16a)
12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these
steps , we tried to carry this message to others, and practice these principals
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