Celebrate Recovery at the Tabernacle

Every Tuesday

6:00 - 6:45
Dinner

7:00 - 8:00
Worship & Teaching

8:00 - 9:00
Small Groups

9:00 - 9:30
After Hours Café

The purpose of Tabernacle’s “Celebrate Recovery” program is to come together and celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through 8 Recovery Principles. By working and applying these Biblical principles, we become free from our addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors.

Is Celebrate Recovery Unique?

Celebrate Recovery is based on God’s Word, the Bible.
Celebrate Recovery is forward looking.
Celebrate Recovery emphasizes personal responsibility.
Celebrate Recovery utilizes the Biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow spiritually and emotionally.
Celebrate Recovery addresses all types of hurts, habits, and hang-up.

The feeling of being HURT is an emotional
reaction to another person’s behavior or to a
disturbing situation. (abuse, abandonment,
codependency, divorce, relationship issues, etc.)

A HABIT is an addiction to someone or something. (alcoholism, drugs, food, gambling, sex, shopping, smoking, etc.)

HANG-UPS are negative mental attitudes that are used to cope with people or adversity. (anger, depression, fear, unforgiveness, etc.)

These life problems can be stumbling blocks or stepping stones. Healing is available through applying the principles of a Bible based recovery process to our lives.

8 Recovery Principles

Realize that I am not God; I admit I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable. (Step 1)

Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to him, and He has the power to help me recover. (Step 2)

Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control. (Step 3)

Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, to myself and to someone I trust.
(Step 4 & 5)

Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. (Step 6 & 7)

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.
(Step 8 & 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 gain the power to follow His will. (Step 10 & 11)

Yield myself to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by example and by my words. (Step 12)

THINGS WE ARE:

A safe place to share
A refuge
A place of belonging
A place to care for others and be cared for
Where respect is given to each member
Where confidentiality is highly regarded
A place to learn
A place to demonstrate genuine love
A place to grow and become strong again
A place for progress
Where you can take off your mask and allow others to know who you are
A place for healthy challenges and healthy risks
A possible turning point in your life

THINGS WE ARE NOT:

A place for selfish control
Therapy
A place for secrets
A place to rescue or be rescued by others
A place for perfection
A place to judge others
A long-term commitment
A quick fix