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The New Testament is a book about recovery..............

It looks back to the Old Testament scriptures which record God's miraculous creation of our world.  Then, sin's entrance on the scene through the bad choices of God's highest creation --the human race.  The Old Testament reveals the painful consequences and the fall of man, which was the beginning of God's infinite plan for our recovery from sin's powerful grip.

The New Testament completes this story through the amazing life and sacrificial death of God's son, Jesus Christ.  It is through HIM that we can discover the source and the power for our own deliverance.  The scriptures provide us with the only real pathway to wholeness -- God's program for forgiveness, reconciliation, restoration, and healing.

The Twelve Steps of Recovery
  1. We admitted that we were powerless over our dependencies -- that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to God.
  4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. We admitted to God, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
  8. We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure others.
  10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
  11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscience contact with God, praying only for his will for us and the  power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Recovery
  • 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.
  • Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has th power to help me recover.
  • Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.
  • Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, God, and to someone I trust.
  • Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
  • 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.
  • 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 the "Good News" to others, both by my example and by my words.
 

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