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hope for those who struggle with Hurts Habits and Hangups!
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What is Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate
Recovery is a unique and powerful program that has helped literally thousands
of people all over the country break free from the "hurts, habits, and
hang-ups" that have kept them from experiencing life as God intends.
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 (Matthew 5:3-10).
These 8 Principles are God's road to recovery, wholeness,
growth, and spiritual Christ-like maturity. 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 that 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.
Celebrate Recovery emphasizes personal responsibility.
Instead of playing the "accuse and excuse" game of victimization, this
program helps people face up to their own poor choices and deal with
what they can 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 those changes. We cannot control all
that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to everything.
That is a secret of happiness. When we stop wasting time fixing the
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 working in our mind, will, and emotions.
Celebrate Recovery emphasizes spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ.
It calls for people to make a total surrender of their lives to Christ.
Lasting recovery cannot happen without this step. Everybody needs
Jesus. Celebrate Recovery addresses all types of habits, hurts, and
hang-ups. Some recovery programs deal only with alcohol or drugs or
another single problem. But Celebrate Recovery is a "large umbrella"
program under which a limitless number of issues can be dealt with.
When Do we Meet
Every monday evening at 7:00 the Celebrate Recovery group
meets in the fellowship center of the Forest Park Church.
For more information contact: jason@forestparkchurch.org
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