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Seminole United Methodist Church
5400 Seminole Boulevard
Seminole, Florida 33772-7399
Office Phone: 727-391-9781
Preschool Phone: 727-391-0657
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Celebrate Recovery
Our hurts, habits, and hang-ups can take away joy and leave
discontentment, pain, and sometimes even chaos in our lives
making it difficult, or worse, impossible for us to know God's will.
There is a program, "Celebrate Recovery", for teaching us how to
accept God' s healing 'Power into our lives, how to live in His joy.
"Celebrate Recovery"changes our lives through fellowship, Bible
study, and personal action as depicted in twelve steps and in
eight recover principles. The first principle is "Realize I'm not God.
Admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong
thing and that my life is unmanageable."A "Celebrate Recovery"
group is forming at our church. Do you have previous 12-step
experience? No previous 12-step experience? Would you like to
belong to a group who is interested in working together to find
healing from hurts, habits and hangups? You'll be pleased with the
opportunity to grow in this Christian context. You will be
amazed!Celebrate Recovery meets every Tuesday at 7:00 pm in
the Fellowship Hall. Small groups share individually and discuss the
testimony. The evening concludes with coffee and fellowship.
Our hurts, habits, and hang-ups can take away joy and leave
discontentment, pain, and sometimes even chaos in our lives
making it difficult, or worse, impossible for us to know God's will.
There is a program, "Celebrate Recovery", for teaching us how to
accept God' s healing 'Power into our lives, how to live in His joy.
"Celebrate Recovery"changes our lives through fellowship, Bible
study, and personal action as depicted in twelve steps and in
eight recover principles. The first principle is "Realize I'm not God.
Admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong
thing and that my life is unmanageable."A "Celebrate Recovery"
group is forming at our church. Do you have previous 12-step
experience? No previous 12-step experience? Would you like to
belong to a group who is interested in working together to find
healing from hurts, habits and hangups? You'll be pleased with the
opportunity to grow in this Christian context. You will be
amazed!Celebrate Recovery meets every Tuesday at 7:00 pm in
the Fellowship Hall. Small groups share individually and discuss the
testimony. The evening concludes with coffee and fellowship.
Links
Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate Recovery
THE TWELVE STEPS AND THEIR BIBLICAL
COMPARISONS
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)
2. Came to believe that a power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
For it is God who works in you to will and to
act according to his good purpose.
(Philippians 2:13)
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our
lives over to the care of God.
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is
your spiritual act of worship. (Romans
12:1)
4. Made a searching and fearless moral
inventory of ourselves.
Let us examine our ways and test them,
and let us return to the LORD.
(Lamentations 3:40)
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to
another human being, the exact nature of
our wrongs.
Therefore confess your sins to each other
and pray for each other so that you may be
healed. (James 5:16a)
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove
all these defects of character.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he
will lift you up. (James 4:10)
7. Humbly asked Him to remove all our
shortcomings.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just and will forgive us our sins and purify
us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
8. Made a list of all persons we had
harmed and became willing to make
amends to them all.
Do to others as you would have them do to
you. (Luke 6:31)
9. Made direct amends to such people
whenever possible, except when to do so
would injure them or others.
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. (Matthew 5:23-24)
10. Continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong, promptly
admitted it.
So, if you think you are standing firm, be
careful that you don't fall! (1 Corinthians
10:12)
11. Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with God,
praying only for knowledge of His will for us
and power to carry that out.
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.
(Colossians 3:16a)
12. Having had a spiritual experience as
the result of these steps, we tried to carry
this message to others, and practice these
principles in all our affairs.
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. (Galatians 6:1)
- All scripture quoted from the New
International Version.
COMPARISONS
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)
2. Came to believe that a power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
For it is God who works in you to will and to
act according to his good purpose.
(Philippians 2:13)
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our
lives over to the care of God.
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is
your spiritual act of worship. (Romans
12:1)
4. Made a searching and fearless moral
inventory of ourselves.
Let us examine our ways and test them,
and let us return to the LORD.
(Lamentations 3:40)
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to
another human being, the exact nature of
our wrongs.
Therefore confess your sins to each other
and pray for each other so that you may be
healed. (James 5:16a)
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove
all these defects of character.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he
will lift you up. (James 4:10)
7. Humbly asked Him to remove all our
shortcomings.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just and will forgive us our sins and purify
us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
8. Made a list of all persons we had
harmed and became willing to make
amends to them all.
Do to others as you would have them do to
you. (Luke 6:31)
9. Made direct amends to such people
whenever possible, except when to do so
would injure them or others.
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. (Matthew 5:23-24)
10. Continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong, promptly
admitted it.
So, if you think you are standing firm, be
careful that you don't fall! (1 Corinthians
10:12)
11. Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with God,
praying only for knowledge of His will for us
and power to carry that out.
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.
(Colossians 3:16a)
12. Having had a spiritual experience as
the result of these steps, we tried to carry
this message to others, and practice these
principles in all our affairs.
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. (Galatians 6:1)
- All scripture quoted from the New
International Version.