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Celebrate Recovery
A Christian 12 Step Recovery Program
8 Recovery Principles
Based on the Beatitudes
By Rick Warren
Principle 1
R = 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. Matthew 5:3
(Step 1)
Principle 2
E = 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. Matthew 5:4
(Step 2)
Principle 3
C = Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control. Happy are the meek. Matthew 5:5
(Step 3)
Principle 4
O = Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. Happy are the pure in heart. Matthew 5:8
(Step 4, 5)
Principle 5
V = Voluntarily submit to any and all changes God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character's defects. Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires. Matthew 5:6
(Step 6, 7)
Principle 6
E = Evaluate all of my relationships; offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I have done to others except when to do so would harm them or others. Happy are the merciful. Matthew 5:7
(Step 8, 9)
Principle 7
R = Reserve a daily time with God for prayer, Bible reading, and self-examination in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
(Step 10, 11)
Principle 8
Y = Yield myself to be used by God 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. Matthew 5:10
(Step 12)
Celebrate Recovery
Welcome Newcomers
The purpose of Celebrate Recovery of Granbury is to fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through the eight Recovery Principles found in the Beatitudes and Christ-centered 12 Steps. This experience allows us to be changed. We open the door by sharing our experiences, strengths, and hopes with one another. In addition, we become willing to accept God's grace in solving our life problems.
By working the Christ-centered Steps and applying their biblical principles found in the Beatitudes, we begin to grow spiritually. We become free from our addictive, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy, and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others.
As we progress through the principles and the steps we discover our personal, living, and forgiving Higher Power Jesus Christ.
Welcome to an Amazing Spiritual Adventure!
Celebrate Recovery Small Groups CAN:
• Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths, and hopes with others who are going through a Christ-centered recovery.
• Provide you with a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up, or habit, that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular principle each week. The leader will also keep Celebrate Recovery's five rules.
• 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. We will provide you with a list of approved counseling referrals.
• Allow its members to attempt to fix one another.
Celebrate Recovery
Join us in recovery every Tuesday and Friday
at Lakeside Baptist Church Ministry Center, 3410 Glen Rose Hwy. (The brown church located at the stop light at Glen Rose Hwy. (Hwy. 144) and Contrary Creek Road.
Tuesday
6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Recovery Meal
7:15 to 8:00 p.m. Large Group Fellowship and Teaching Testimony Time
8:00 to 8:10 p.m. Short Break
8:10 to 9:00 p.m. Small Groups as follows:
WOMEN'S Alcohol and Drug Recovery Meet on couches
WOMEN'S Co-Dependency, Anger, Sexual Abuse, etc. Meet in class room in the hall
MEN'S Alcohol and Chemical Addiction Meet in class room by kitchen
MEN Other Issues Meet past the copier
TEEN'S Life Hurts, God Heals Meet outside
*New groups coming soon*
Friday
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Study the Steps with the help of group leaders
Our Tuesday and Friday meeting place is provided by Lakeside Baptist Church. We appreciate their support.
| Things We Are: |
| Things We Are Not: | | A safe place to share | | A place for selfish control | | A safe refuge | | A place for therapy | | A place of belonging | | A place for secrets | | A place to care for others and be cared for,
where respect is given to each member,
where confidentiality is highly regarded | | A place to look for a dating relationship | | | A place to rescue or be rescued by others | | | A place for perfection | | A place to learn | | A long-term commitment | | A place to grow and become strong again | | A place to judge others | | A place where you can take off your mask | | A place for a quick fix | | A place for healthy challenges and risks | | A place for condemnation | | A possible turning point in your life | | A place to hide |
Group Leaders:
Tim (817) 223-0973
Carol (817) 713-4148
Sandee (817) 579-0892
Lisa (817) 573-5529
Mike (817) 579-9332
If you do not normally attend church, you are welcome to attend Lakeside Baptist Church.
Celebrate Recovery
Twelve Steps
and their Biblical Comparisons
1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.
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. (Romans 7:18)
2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. (Philippians 2:13)
3. We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
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. (Romans 12:1)
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. (Lamentations 3:40)
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. (James 5:16)
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up. (James 4:10)
7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9)
8. We made a list of all persons and became willing to make amends to them all.
Do to others as you would have them do to you. (Luke 6:31)
9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
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. (Matthew 5:23-24)
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall. (I Corinthians 10:12)
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry that out.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. (Colossians 3:16)
12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Brothers, if someone is caught in sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. (Galatians 6:10)
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