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Wednesday Evenings
7-8:30pm | Room 206 | Email jerry.vawter@crossroadsportland.com
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Healing Hurts, Hang-Ups and Habits
Everyone
suffers from hurts, habits or hang-ups in their lives. Many of these
life experiences stem from adult or childhood encounters with:
Alcoholism, Drug Addiction
Gambling
Pornography, Sex Addiction
Infidelity
Love and Relationship Addiction
Physical, Sexual, or Emotional Abuse
Anger, Resentment
Control Issues
Co-dependency, Anxiety
Social Phobias
Unresolved Grief and Loss
Depression
Uncontrolled Spending
Eating Disorders
In Celebrate Recovery
we seek God's healing power in our lives by applying eight biblical
recovery principles. By working these principles, we grow spiritually.
We become free from our addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional
behaviors. This 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. This experience allows us to be healed and to be changed.
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. There are many therapies,
growth programs, and counselors today that operate around one-to-one
interaction. These options are sometimes beneficial in an individual's
personal recovery program. But Celebrate Recovery
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. If you are seeking a
supportive fellowship, please join us. |
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Eight Principles Based on the Beatitudes
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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.
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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, God will comfort them.
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Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.
Happy are the humble.
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Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God and to someone I trust.
Happy are the pure in heart.
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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.
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Evaluate all of 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.
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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.
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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.
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The Twelve Steps
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The Biblical comparisons of the Twelve Steps
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Step 1 We admitted that we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.
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1. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have a desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Romans 7:18
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Step 2 We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. |
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2. For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:13
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Step 3 We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God. |
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3. Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - This is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1 |
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Step 4 We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. |
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4. Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD. Lamentations 3:40 |
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Step 5 We admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. |
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5. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. James 5:16 |
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Step 6 We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. |
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6. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 4:10 |
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Step 7 We humbly asked him to remove all our shortcomings. |
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7. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 |
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Step 8 We made a list of all
persons we had harmed and
became willing to make amends
to them all. |
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8. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Luke 6:31 |
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Step 9 We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. |
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9. Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember your brother has something against you, leave your gift here in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. Matthew 5:23-24 |
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Step 10 We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. |
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10. So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 1 Corinthians 10:12
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Step 11 We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry it out. |
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11. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Colossians 3:16 |
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Step 12 Having had a spiritual experience as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs. |
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12. Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Galatians 6:1 |
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