Freedom From Your Hurts, Hang-ups and Habits

Celebrate Recovery is a biblical and balanced program, based on the actual words of Jesus, to help people overcome their hurts, hang-ups and habits.

Celebrate Recovery addresses all types of habits, hang-ups and hurts.  Some recovery programs deal only with alcohol, or drugs, or another single problem. But this program is a “large umbrella” program under which a limitless number of issues can be dealt with. 

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. From a conventional viewpoint, most of these statements didn’t make sense. They sounded like contradictions.  But when you fully understand what Jesus is saying, you realize that these eight principles are God’s road to recovery, wholeness, growth, and spiritual maturity. 

CELEBRATE RECOVERY’S EIGHT RECOVERY PRINCIPLES

The Road to Recovery

• 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 that they are spiritually poor.”



• 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."



• Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
  

  “Happy are the meek.”



• Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.
  

  “Happy are the pure in heart.”



• Voluntarily submit to any and all changes 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.”

• Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when to do so would harm them or others.
  

  “Happy are the merciful.” 

  “Happy are the peacemakers.”



• Reserve a 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. 


• Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example
  and my words.
  

  “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.”

Celebrate Recovery meets on Wednesday evenings at 6:45 p.m. in room 303.

For more information on Celebrate Recovery:

• Click here to send an E-mail.
• Click here to visit the Celebrate Recovery Web site.
• Call the church office at 817-232-8210