This guest post has been submitted on behalf of Celebrate Recovery (CR) by Scott and Heather Nash, local and regional leaders for Celebrate Recovery Canada.
Is Celebrate Recovery for you?
This Recovery Program can help you discover freedom from your Hurts, Hang-ups or Habits. It is a Christ-centred, 12 Step recovery program that addresses all of the hurts, hang-ups and habits that we deal with in life. We believe that Jesus is at the centre of our recovery journeys. Celebrate Recovery is a safe place where you will not be judged and where you’ll be free to progress at your own pace and have others to encourage and walk with you.
Here are a series of questions to help you discover if CR can help you:
- Do you believe, or want to believe in God, yet can’t seem to?
- Do you want to trust God with your whole life, yet live in fear?
- If you are honest, do you know you are not happy?
- Is serenity only an ideal; seldom experienced?
- Do you find your personal life is troubled?
- Are your relationships clouded by conflict and confusion?
- Do you find people in your life can’t understand you?
- Do others not love you as you feel you should be loved?
- Do you have resentments, anger, fear or loneliness?
- Do you have persistent feelings of low self-worth, shame, guilt?
- Do you have recurring pain about relationships and living in general?
- Have you tried to change your behaviours without success?
- Have you tried to change the behaviours of people around you?
- Have your even called God in on the struggle to change those close to you or yourself without apparent result?
- Do those whom you try to “help” not cooperate?
- Do you feel angry or hurt, asking, ”Why do they resent me”?
- Do you think, “They should just do what I say”?
- Do you tell others, “I am only trying to help them”?
- Have you realized that you can’t even fix your own pain?
- Do your prayers for God’s help not relieve the pain?
- Have you not told anyone of your secret pain?
- Does life not respond to your manipulations?
- Are you realizing you don’t have the needed power?
- Are you lacking spiritual resources to overcome the pain?
- Do you have a difficulty and want to change?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, come explore how Celebrate Recovery may help you experience change.
You can download and a print a brochure with these questions, as well as a series of check boxes to help you become self-aware of your own needs.
8 Principles of Celebrate Recovery
These principles were developed by Rick Warren, well-known author of the best-selling book, The Purpose Driven Life, and spell “R E C O V E R Y.”
- 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 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 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.
- 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. Happy are the peacemakers.
- Reserve a daily 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 by my words. Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.
Meeting details
Here is the link for meeting details.
Read through the attached pamphlet and see how many of the questions asked relate to you. Better yet, come out and join us on Tuesday evenings and experience it for yourself. We’d love to meet you.
Sincerely,
Scott and Heather Nash
