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Celebrate Recovery Ministry |
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The purpose of Celebrate Recovery Ministry is to fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through the 8 Recovery Principles found in the Beatitudes and Christ-centered 12 Steps:
R - Principle 1
- Realize I'm not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable.
- "Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor."
E - Principle 2
- 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."
C - Principle 3
- Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.
- "Happy are the meek."
O - Principle 4
- Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust.
- "Happy are the pure in heart."
V - Principle 5
- 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."
E - Principle 6
- 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."
R - Principle 7
- Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible readings and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
- "Happy are the peacemakers."
Y - Principle 8
- 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."
Celebrate Recovery Small Groups WILL:
- Provide you with a safe place to share your experiences, victories, 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 who will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular principle each week. The leader will also keep Celebrate Recovery's "Five Small Group Guidelines".
- Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner or a sponsor.
- Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week.
Celebrate Recovery Small Groups WILL NOT:
- Attempt to offer any professional clinical advice. Our leaders are not counselors.
- Allow its members to attempt to "fix" one another.
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