Welcome to Living Rock Church's Celebrate Recovery. Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, twelve-step recovery program...for you.
Based on the 12 steps and their biblical comparisons and 8 principles based on the Beatitudes.
We have discovered a safe place to talk about our hurts, habits, and hang-ups, whatever they might be. We are all recovering from something. At Living Rock Celebrate Recovery, we have simply decided to be honest about it and let God begin to heal our hurts and free us from our habits and hang-ups. We are taking that first step in celebrating God's healing power through working the 8 principles in our lives. As we do this through fellowship and sharing we begin to change and grow spiritually. We will experience a deeper relationship with God and others as we find freedom through Christ from our addictive and compulsive thoughts and behavior patterns such as codependency, pornography, chemical dependency, eating disorders, depression, emotional/physical/sexual abuse, anger and other personal struggles. If you are seeking help in areas like these, you have come to the right place.
We meet on Thursday nights at 7:00pm. All adults 18 and over are welcome (we currantly don't have groups for ages 18 and under), everyone is encouraged to consider Celebrate Recovery as you seek ways to deal with your hurts, habits and hang-ups. Please do not hesitate to join us and allow the healing to begin. You can contact Tony and Andrea Rock @ 860-663-2069 x22 or send an email to livingrockcr@comcast.net for more information. (All calls and emails are confidential.)
Here is a little something to lift you up and encourage you to join us! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2lVOukOqlU
Things we are and Things we are not
Some examples and explanations of issues this program can address: | Special events  |
Know that you are not alone. The following link has some great testimonies of folks like you and I from around the country who have received strength and hope through Christ by attending CR. It is very powerful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0JgUrI598
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Here are the 12 steps and there biblical comparisons followed by the 8 principles:
| Step 1. | |
| Romans I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. | |
| Step 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. | |
| Philippians For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. | |
| Step 3. We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God. | |
| Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, | |
| Step 4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. | |
| Lamentations Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. | |
| Step 5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. | |
| James Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for each other that you may be healed. | |
| Step 6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. | |
| James Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will lift you up. | |
| Step 7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings. | |
| 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. | |
| Step 8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. | |
| Luke Do to others as you would have them do to you. | |
| Step 9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. | |
| Matthew 5:23-24 Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. | |
| Step 10. We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. | |
| 1 Corinthians So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall. | |
| Step 11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry it out. | |
| Colossians Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. | |
| Step 12. | |
| Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted | |
8 Road to Recovery Principles
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Happy are the meek. | |
| 4. Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. | |
| Happy are the pure in heart. | |
| 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. | |
| 6. Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I have done to others, except when to do so would cause harm to them or others. | |
| Happy are the merciful. Happy are the peacemakers. | |
| 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. | |
| Celebrate Recovery Changing One Life at a Time | |
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