Celebrate Recovery Happens Every Tuesday Night 7pm @ the Vineyard of Sequim
Welcome Newcomers!The purpose of Celebrate Recovery is to fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through the 8 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, victories, 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.
A we progress through the principles and the steps, we discover our personal, loving, and forgiving Higher Power -- Jesus Christ. Welcome to an Amazing Spiritual Adventure!
Celebrate Recovery Small Groups WILL:
Eight Recovery Principles based on the Beatitudes
R = Principle 1 - 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."
E - Principle 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."
C - Principle 3 - Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.
"Happy are the meek."
O = Principle 4 - Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust.
"Happy are the pure in heart."
V = Principle 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."
E = Principle 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."
R - Principle 7 - Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible readings and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
"Happy are the peacemakers."
Y = Principle 8 - 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."
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.
A we progress through the principles and the steps, we discover our personal, loving, and forgiving Higher Power -- Jesus Christ. Welcome to an Amazing Spiritual Adventure!
Celebrate Recovery Small Groups WILL:
- Provide you with a safe place to share your experiences, victories, and hopes with others who are going through a Christ-centered recovery.
- Provide you with a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, habit or hang-up who will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular principle each week. The leader will also keep Celebrate Recovery's "Five Small Group Guidelines".
- Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner or a sponsor.
- Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week.
- Attempt to offer any professional clinical advice. Our leaders are not counselors.
- Allow its members to attempt to "fix" one another.
- Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts, feelings.
- Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes. There is NO cross talk, please. Cross talk is when two people engage in a dialogue during the meeting.
- Each person is free to express feelings without interruptions. We are here to support one another. We will not atempt of "fix" another.
- Anonymity and Confidentiality are basic requirements. What's shared in the group stays in the group. The only exception is when someone threatens to injure themselves or others.
- Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group, including no graphic descriptions.
Eight Recovery Principles based on the Beatitudes
R = Principle 1 - 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."
E - Principle 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."
C - Principle 3 - Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.
"Happy are the meek."
O = Principle 4 - Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust.
"Happy are the pure in heart."
V = Principle 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."
E = Principle 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."
R - Principle 7 - Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible readings and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
"Happy are the peacemakers."
Y = Principle 8 - 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."
