CELEBRATE RECOVERY...A PROGRAM FOR REAL LIFE CHANGE

      Celebrate Recovery is a program that was developed over fifteen years ago and has been used in hundreds of churches throughout the United States. It focuses on one of the most neglected aspects of real recovery...Spiritual transformation.

     As you work through and apply eight biblical principles of recovery, you will begin to experience freedom from those addictive, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy, and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others.

  CELEBRATE RECOVERY SMALL GROUPS:

      C.R. Small Groups Can:

  • Provide a safe place to share all of your experiences, strengths, and hopes with others who are going through a Christ-centered recovery.

  • Provide you with a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, habit, or hang-up, that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular principle each week.

  • Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner.

      C.R. Small Groups Will Not:

  • Attempt to offer any professional help. Our leaders are not counselors. We will provide you with a list of approved counselors.

  • Allow its members to attempt to fix one another.

  WHAT TO EXPECT:

      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 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 rescue or be rescued by others...

  • A place for perfection

  • A long-term commitment...

  • A place to judge others...

  • A quick fix...

  THE ROAD TO RECOVERY: 

  8 Recovery Principles Based on the Beatitudes...Based on the Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5:3-10

  • R ... Realize I'm not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable..."Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor..." Matthew 5:3

  • E ... 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..."  Matthew 5:4

  • C ... Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control. "Happy are the meek..."  Matthew 5:5

  • O ... Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart..." Matthew 5:8

  • V ... 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 desires... "Matthew 5:6

  • E ... 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..." Matthew 5:7 & 9

  • R ... Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.

  • Y ... 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 they do what God requires..." Matthew 5:10

 PRAYER FOR SERENITY:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day a a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;

Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it;

Trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will;

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life

And supremely happy with You forever in the next

Amen

By: Reinhold Niebuhr

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