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Have you experienced the hurt of abuse or divorce?
Do you or someone you love struggle
with an addictive habit?
Is there a hang-up that prevents you
from moving forward with life?
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered
12-step program that promotes healing for
all types of hurts, habits and hang-ups.
The world is full of hurt. Our churches and communities are filled with people who are struggling with pain, shame and addiction. Feeling led by God to use his own experience as a believer who struggles with alcohol, John Baker began Celebrate
Recovery, a Christ-centered twelve-step program, at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California to help other followers of Christ work through their life hurts, hang-ups and addictive habits, and to introduce non-believers to the life-changing power of Christ. This ministry has helped thousand of individuals as it has quickly spread throughout the United States, as well as other countries. We are pleased to be able to offer the Celebrate Recovery program at First Baptist Church Joelton.
Celebrate Recovery is a recovery ministry based on biblical principles with the goal of letting God work through us in providing His healing power through a Christ-centered twelve-step program. This experience allows people to be changed spiritually by working through sound biblical principles. Participants open the door by confidentially 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 by breaking out of their bondage and moving into God's grace (II Corinthians 12:9).
The program is founded upon Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. In this sermon Jesus began by stating eight ways to be truly happy. Today we call these principles the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-10). These eight principles form the basis of God's road to recovery, wholeness, growth and spiritual Christ-like maturity. Celebrate Recovery relies on the biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow both spiritually and emotionally. It is built around small group interaction and the fellowship of a caring community based upon the New Testament principle that we don't get well by ourselves. Fellowship and accountability are two necessary components of spiritual growth.
Instead of playing the "accuse and excuse" game of victimization, this program helps people face up to their own poor choices and deal with the things they can actually 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 needed changes. We cannot control all that happens to us, but we can control how we respond. When we stop wasting time ascribing 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 to work in our mind, will and emotions. Celebrate Recovery calls on people to surrender their lives totally to Christ. Lasting recovery cannot happen without this step. Everybody needs Jesus.
While some recovery programs deal only with alcohol or drugs, Celebrate Recovery addresses all types of habits, hurts and hang-ups. Celebrate Recovery is a "large umbrella" program under which a limitless number of issues can be resolved. If you or someone you know has been hurt by divorce, sexual or physical abuse, domestic violence, or struggles with alcoholism, drug, sex, food or gambling addiction, Celebrate Recovery can help. For more information please contact Danny Davidson at 615-876-0527.
------------------ Adapted from the Celebrate Recovery Leaders Guide Foreward by Rick Warren.