Many Christians today struggle with be-setting sins and remain under the control of the world and all its vices and entrapments. These hurts, habits, and hang-ups can keep us from loving God and others as we should. It addresses the unhealthy “self” that will allow us to love God and others as we should in a Christ center 12-step program based on the Beatitudes. Some typical 12-Step recovery groups are:
Chemical Dependency for Men and Women:
For those who cannot quit drinking or using or for those who have little control over the amount they consume. These may be symptoms of alcoholism and/or addiction. These are issues that only a spiritual solution will conquer.
Codependency and Anger for Men and Women:
For those who struggle with the compulsion to rescue and take care of others, have difficulty setting boundaries, and recognizing their own worth. For those who find that anger is their first response to problems of any size. For those who withdraw and create isolation, are depressed, or demonstrate passive-aggressive behavior.
Recovery from Physical, Emotional, or Sexual Abuse for Women:
For those who have endured past physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse. Recovery includes healing from the traumas of the past as well as healing from the influence that past experiences continue to have in our lives.
Men's Sexual Integrity Group:
For those seeking recovery from lust and compulsive sexual behaviors. A group that provides fellowship, a safe place to share struggles, pain, and victories, and helps to establish accountability and mutual support.
Celebrate Recovery is a recovery ministry based on biblical principles with a goal to let God work through us in providing His healing power through a Christ-centered 12 Step program.
This experience allows people to be "changed" spiritually by working through sound biblical principles. Participants open the door by sharing their experiences, strengths, and hopes with one another. In addition, they become willing to accept God's grace and forgiveness in solving life's problems.
Celebrate Recovery provides a safe place for individuals to begin their journey of breaking out from their bondage and into God's grace (II Corinthians 12:9), by helping them to start dealing with their life's hurts, habits and hang-ups.
Celebrate Recovery Worship Based
Worship is a major strength and difference between a Christ-centered and a secular recovery program. Worship provides a time for everyone to put aside the busyness and hassles of the world and get in touch with the true Higher Power, Jesus Christ. It allows time for the power of the Holy Spirit to fill all those who attend with a peace and a safety that only He can provide.
The main focus of every fellowship event is to help members develop healthy relationships that will grow into a support team of sponsors and accountability partners.
Celebrate Recovery is based on God's Word, the Bible.
When Jesus taught the Sermon on the Mount, He began by stating eight ways to be happy. Today we call them the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-10). These 8 Principles are God's road to recovery, wholeness, growth, and spiritual Christ-like maturity. Celebrate Recovery utilizes the biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow spiritually and emotionally. It is built around small group interaction and the fellowship of a caring community that is built on the New Testament principle that we don't get well by ourselves. We need each other. Fellowship and accountability are two important components of spiritual growth.
Celebrate Recovery emphasizes personal responsibility.
Instead of playing the "accuse and excuse" game of victimization, this program helps people face up to their own poor choices and deal with what they can do something about.
Rather than wallowing in the past or dredging up and rehearsing painful memories over and over, Celebrate Recovery focuses on the future. Regardless of what has already happened, the solution is to start making wise choices now and depend on Christ's power to help make those changes.
We cannot control all that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to everything. That is a secret of happiness. When we stop wasting time fixing the blame, we have more energy to fix the problem. When we stop hiding our own faults and stop hurling accusations at others, then the healing power of Christ can begin working in our mind, will, and emotions.
Celebrate Recovery emphasizes spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ.
It calls for people to make a total surrender of their lives to Christ. Lasting recovery cannot happen without this step. Everybody needs Jesus. Celebrate Recovery addresses all types of habits, hurts, and hang-ups. Some recovery programs deal only with alcohol or drugs or another single problem. But Celebrate Recovery is a "large umbrella" program under which a limitless number of issues can be dealt with.
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