Celebrate Recovery® Updated Leader's Guide

by John Baker

• ISBN13: 9780310268338
• ISBN10: 0310268338
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in YourChurch Alcoholism - Divorce - Sexual Abuse - Codependency - Domestic Violence - Drug Addiction - Sexual Addiction - Food Addiction - Gambling Addiction and many more!There is a way the church can help the hurting move beyond their wounds to experience the healing and forgiveness of Christ. Since 1991, more than 200,000 people have participated in the Celebrate Recoveryprograms offered at more than 3,500 churches, prisons, and rescue missions. Drawn from the Beatitudes, Celebrate Recovery helps people resolve painful problems in the context of the church as a whole. Newly updated, the kit includes:-1 20-minute DVD introductory guide for leaders-1 leader's guide-1 of each participant's guide (4 total)-CD-ROM with 25 lessons-CD-ROM with sermon transcripts and reproducible promotional materials-4-volume audio CD sermon series"And then there's pastor John Baker, the founder of Celebrate Recovery... Big John and I shared something in common. We used to drink too much. And our hearts changed, and then we quit. That is a tried-and-true formula. The problem is government is not good at changing hearts. But people like John Baker have been good about it and successful doing that." -President George W. Bush on Celebrate Recovery and its founder, John Baker, at the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Conference, March 3, 2004.

Table of Contents

The Road to Recovery: Eight Principles Based on the Beatitudes	9	(1)
Twelve Steps and Their Biblical Comparisons	10	(2)
Foreword	12	(2)
Rick Warren
From My Heart to Yours	14	(7)
Getting Started	21	(34)
Part 1
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.''
Lesson 1: Denial	55	(7)
Lesson 2: Powerless	62	(11)
Part 2
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.''
Lesson 3: Hope	73	(4)
Lesson 4: Sanity	77	(12)
Part 3
Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control
``Happy are the meek.''
Lesson 5: Turn	89	(5)
Lesson 6: Action	94	(13)
Part 4
Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust
``Happy are the pure in heart.''
Lesson 7: Moral	107	(5)
Lesson 8: Sponsor	112	(10)
Lesson 9: Inventory	122	(3)
Lesson 10: Spiritual Inventory Part 1	125	(5)
Lesson 11: Spiritual Inventory Part 2	130	(4)
Lesson 12: Confess	134	(5)
Lesson 13: Admit	139	(8)
Part 5
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.''
Lesson 14: Ready	147	(4)
Lesson 15: Victory	151	(8)
Part 6
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.''
Lesson 16: Amends	159	(5)
Lesson 17: Forgiveness	164	(5)
Lesson 18: Grace	169	(10)
Part 7
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
Lesson 19: Crossroads	179	(4)
Lesson 20: Daily Inventory	183	(7)
Lesson 21: Relapse	190	(6)
Lesson 22: Gratitude	196	(9)
Part 8
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.''
Lesson 23: Give	205	(4)
Lesson 24: Yes	209	(6)
Lesson 25: The Seven Reasons We Get Stuck	215	(5)
Closing Thoughts	220	(1)
Appendixes	221