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Celebrate Recovery

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
2 Corinthians 5:17

Celebrate Recovery focuses on Christ and invites you to engage with Scripture, ultimately finding freedom from addictive and compulsive thoughts and behavior patterns such as codependency, homosexuality, pornography, chemical dependency, eating disorders, depression, emotional/physical abuse, anger and other personal struggles.

Join us Mondays from 6:30 – 8 pm at the Watermark Building (Location & Parking). It is not necessary to sign up before attending, so please do not hesitate to join us and allow healing to begin. Contact Lindsey Nelson for more information.

This Week's Testimony
May 5: Tiffany Wilkins shares how the Lord radically changed her life when she experienced His GRACE. To hear her story and her insightful teaching, click here.

Strength Finder Results
Attention Celebrate Recovery Leaders, please submit your Strength Finder Results.

Issues We Address
pdf Adult Children of Alcoholics
pdf Anger
pdf Chemical Addiction
pdf Co-addicted Women in Relationship with Sexually Addicted Men
pdf Codependency
pdf Eating Disorders
pdf Fear
pdf Financial Recovery
pdf Guilt and Shame
pdf Relationship Addiction
pdf Sexual/Physical/Emotional Abuse

Audio Testimonies
Aleks shares about her eating disorder
Carlos shares about forgiving the murderer of one of his family members
Carlton shares about his struggle with control
Jim shares about his struggle with anger
Leonard shares about his struggle with homosexuality
Malen shares about grace and her struggle with alcohol and an eating disorder
Sarah shares about her struggle with alcohol abuse
Shoni shares about her struggle with alcohol abuse
Susan shares about her insecurity
Adam shares about his struggle with pornography
Cynthia shares about her struggle with eating and body image
Don shares about his struggle with homosexuality
Kathy shares about overcoming depression and past sexual abuse
Kirk shares about his struggle with anxiety and anger
Danelle shares about her battle with codependency

Audio from The Well
Cynthia Culver - 02.22.08

Celebrate Recovery - 12 Steps and their Biblical Comparisons

Step 1.
We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable. Romans 7:18
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.

Step 2.
We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose.

Step 3.
We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God. Romans 12:1
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

Step 4.
We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Lamentations 3:40
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.

Step 5.
We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for each other that you may be healed.

Step 6.
We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. James 4:10
Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will lift you up.

Step 7.
We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings. 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Step 8.
We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Step 9.
We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Matthew 5:23-24
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 your gift.

Step 10.
We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. 1 Corinthians 10:12
So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall.

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. Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.

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. Galatians 6:1
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.

Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.	Romans 7:18 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.

Step 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.	Philippians 2:13 For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose.

Step 3. We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God.	Romans 12:1 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

Step 4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.	Lamentations 3:40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.

Step 5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.	James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for each other that you may be healed.

Step 6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.	James 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will lift you up.

Step 7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.	1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Step 8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.	Luke 6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Step 9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.	Matthew 5:23-24 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 your gift.

Step 10. We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.	1 Corinthians 10:12 So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall.

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.	Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.

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.	Galatians 6:1 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.