Celebrate Recovery at the Lighthouse Church
Celebrate Recovery of Fargo ~ Lesson 1
CR is for anyone interested in a 12-step Christ-centered recovery program addressing life’s hurts, hang-ups, habits, and addictions. Please join us at 6pm for Dinner; 7pm for worship and large group teaching; we then split into gender based small groups before ending the evening with coffee and conversation.
Locations & Times
the Lighthouse Church
21 9th St S, Fargo, ND 58103, USA
Thursday 6:00 PM
Notes:
Principle 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. Matthew 5:3a (TEV)
tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable.
Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor. Matthew 5:3a (TEV)
Step 1:
We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive
behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.
For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
Romans 7:18 (NIV)
behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.
For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
Romans 7:18 (NIV)
Disables our _________________________________
They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us. (2 Peter 2:19 GNB)
Energy _______________________________________
He frees the prisoners, . . . he lifts the burdens from those bent down beneath their loads . . . (Psalm 146:7b–8 LB)
Negates _____________________________________
Then they cried to the Lord in their troubles, and he rescued them! He led them from the darkness and shadow of death and snapped their chains. (Psalm 107:13–14 LB)
Isolates us from ______________________________
God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. (1 John 1:5b–7 NIV)
Alienates us from ____________________________
Stop lying to each other; tell the truth, for we are parts of each other and when we lie to each other we are hurting ourselves. (Ephesians 4:25 LB)
Lengthens ___________________________________
God’s promise: I will give you back your health again and heal your wounds. (Jeremiah 30:17a LB)
They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us. (2 Peter 2:19 GNB)
Energy _______________________________________
He frees the prisoners, . . . he lifts the burdens from those bent down beneath their loads . . . (Psalm 146:7b–8 LB)
Negates _____________________________________
Then they cried to the Lord in their troubles, and he rescued them! He led them from the darkness and shadow of death and snapped their chains. (Psalm 107:13–14 LB)
Isolates us from ______________________________
God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. (1 John 1:5b–7 NIV)
Alienates us from ____________________________
Stop lying to each other; tell the truth, for we are parts of each other and when we lie to each other we are hurting ourselves. (Ephesians 4:25 LB)
Lengthens ___________________________________
God’s promise: I will give you back your health again and heal your wounds. (Jeremiah 30:17a LB)
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