Ministry Update: Celebrate Recovery

Are you, or do you know someone, on the road to recovery from hurts, habits and hang-ups? Join the journey with the support of others at Celebrate Recovery. Sierra Bible Church is thrilled to offer this ministry for our community.

CR works on Eight Beatitude Principles:

1. Realize I'm not God.
2. Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him and that He has the power to help me recover.
3. Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.
4. Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God and to someone I trust.
5. Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask to remove my character defects.
6. Evaluate all my relationships, offering forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I've done to others while excepting when to do so would harm them or others.
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.
8. Yield myself to God to be used to bring this good news to others, both by my example and by my words.

CR is committed to the Twelve Steps and their Biblical Comparisons:

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.  We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possibly, except when to do would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted to it.
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.
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.

Meetings are at Sierra Bible Church on Thursdays at 6:00pm. If this sounds like something you could benefit from, or know someone who would benefit, please reach out to Chris Lytle at 209-872-9815.