RECOVERY
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-Centered 12 step recovery program for anyone struggling with hurt, pain, or addiction of any kind. Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that are controlling our life.
1100 South Main Street, Elmira, NY (Victory Elmira Campus)
Wednesdays @ 6:30pm - Doors Open @ 6pm
CELEBRATE RECOVERY 12 STEPS AND BIBLICAL COMPARISONS
STEP 1
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 NIV
STEP 2
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 NIV
STEP 3
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 NIV
STEP 4
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 NIV
STEP 5
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 5:16a NIV
STEP 6
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 NIV
STEP 7
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. 1 John 1:9 NIV
STEP 8
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31 NIV
STEP 9
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 NIV
STEP 10
10. We continue 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! 1 Corinthians 10:12
STEP 11
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 3:16a NIV
STEP 12
12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore them gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Galatians 6:1 NIV
CELEBRATE RECOVERY’S EIGHT RECOVERY PRINCIPLES
The Road to Recovery Based on the Beatitudes
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. (Step 1)
“Happy are those who know that they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3a TEV
Earnestly Believe That God Exists, That I Matter To Him And That He Has The Power To Help Me Recover. (Step 2)
“Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 TEV, NIV
“Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 TEV, NIV
“Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5a TEV
Openly Examine And Confess My Faults To Myself, To God, And To Someone I Trust. (Steps 4 And 5)
“Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8a TEV
Voluntarily Submit To Any And All Changes God Wants To Make In My Life And Humbly Ask Him To Remove My Character Defects. (Steps 6 And 7)
“Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires” Matthew 5:6a TEV
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. (Steps 8 And 9)
“Happy are the merciful.” Matthew 5:7a TEV; “Happy are the peacemakers” Matthew 5:9 TEV
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. (Steps 10 And 11)
Yield Myself To God To Be Used To Bring This Good News To Others, Both By My Example And My Words. (Step 12)
“Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.” Matthew 5:10 TEV