We meet every Friday night at 7 PM in the Media Room of Lutheran High School North (beginning Friday, January 20th, 2012). For more information, contact the Celebrate Recovery Leader, Michael Harper.

michael@lakepointechurch.tv 

The Bible clearly states “all have sinned.” It is our nature to sin. None of us are untainted. Because of sin, we’ve all hurt ourselves, we’ve all hurt other people, and others have hurt us. This means each of us needs repentance and recovery in order to live our lives the way God intended.

You’ve undoubtedly heard the expression “Time heals all wounds.” Unfortunately, it isn’t true. The truth is, time often makes things worse. Wounds that are left untended fester and spread infection throughout your entire body. Time only extends the pain if the problem isn’t dealt with.

What people need is a biblical program to help them overcome their hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Celebrate Recovery is that program.

Celebrate Recovery is based on God’s Word, the Bible- When Jesus taught the Sermon on the Mount, He began by stating eight ways to be happy. Today we call them the beatitude. From a conventional viewpoint, most of these statements didn’t make sense.   They sounded like contradictions.  But when you fully understand what Jesus is saying, you’ll realize that these eight principles are God’s road to recovery, wholeness, growth, and spiritual maturity.

Celebrate Recovery is forward-looking-Rather than wallowing in the past, or dredging up and rehearsing painful memories over and over, Celebrate Recovery focuses on the future.  Regardless of what has already happened, the solution is to start making wise choices now and depend on Christ’s power to help me make those changes.

Celebrate Recovery emphasizes personal responsibility-Instead of playing the “accuse and excuse” game of victimization, this program helps people face up to their own poor choices and deal with what they can do something about.  We cannot control all that happens to us.  But we can control how we respond to everything.  That is a secret of happiness.  When we stop wasting time fixing the blame, we have more energy to fix the problem.  When you stop hiding your own faults and stop hurling accusations at others, then the healing power of Christ can begin working in your mind, will, and emotions.

Celebrate Recovery emphasizes spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ-The third principle calls for people to make a total surrender of their lives to Christ. Lasting recovery cannot happen without this step. Everybody needs Jesus in order to experience true freedom.

Celebrate Recovery utilizes the biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow spiritually and emotionally.-It is built around small group interaction and the fellowship of a caring community.  There are many therapies, growth programs, and counselors today that are built around one-on-one interaction.  But Celebrate Recovery is built on the New Testament principle that we don’t get well by ourselves.  We need each other.   Fellowship and accountability are two important components of spiritual growth.

Celebrate Recovery address all types of habits, hurts, and hang-ups-Some recovery programs deal only with alcohol or drugs or another single problem.  But Celebrate Recovery is a “large umbrella” program under which a limitless number of issues can be dealt with.