Welcome Newcomers

Recovery Group Information

 
 

CR Open Share Groups CAN:

  • Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths, and hopes with others that are also going through a Christ-Centered Recovery.
  • Provide you with a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up or habit and who will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular Step each week. The leader will also follow Celebrate Recovery’s “Small Group Guidelines.” listed below.
  • Provide you with the opportunity to find an Accountability Partner or
    a Sponsor.
  • Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout
    the week
 
 

CR Open Share Groups Will NOT:

  • Attempt to offer any professional advice. Our leaders are not counselors. At your request, we can provide you with a list of approved counseling referrals.
  • Allow its members to attempt to “fix” one another.
 
 

Small Group Guidelines

  1. Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Limit your sharing to three to five minutes.
  2. There will be NO cross talk. Cross talk is when two individuals engage in conversation excluding all others. Each person is free to express his or her feelings without interruptions.
  3. We are here to support one another, not “fix” one another. Anonymity (not using names) and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group. The only exception is when someone threatens to injure themselves or others.
  1. Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.
 

Please be advised if anyone threatens to hurt themselves or others, their Open Share Group Leader

has the responsibility to report it to a Celebrate Recovery Ministry Leader.

 
 

Things We Are:

  • A safe place to share
  • A refuge
  • A place of belonging
  • A place to care for others and be cared for
  • A place where respect is given to each other
  • A place where confidentiality is highly regarded
  • A place to learn
  • A place to grow and become strong again
  • A place where you can take off your mask
  • A place for healthy challenges and healthy risks
  • A possible turning point in your life
 
 

Things We Are Not:

  • A place for selfish control
  • A place for therapy
  • A place for secrets
  • A place to look for dating relationships
  • A place to rescue or be rescued by others
  • A place for perfection
  • A place to judge others
  • A quick fix
 
 

THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

The Eight Recovery Principles

 

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. MATTHEW 5:3

 

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. MATTHEW 5:4

 

Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.

Happy are the meek. MATTHEW 5:5

 

Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.

Happy are the pure in heart. MATTHEW 5:8

 

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. MATTHEW 5:6

 

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. MATTHEW 5:7 & 9

 

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.

 

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! MATTHEW 5:10

Jesus Christ, the One and Only True Higher Power