Celebrate Recovery Edinburgh

Celebrate Recovery began in the Saddleback Church in California USA in 1991 and was founded by Pastor John Baker. He and Senior Pastor Rick Warren put the Celebrate Recovery curriculum together. The programme, which uses 8 Principle's of Recovery, has helped many thousands of people overcome all kinds of hurts, habits and hang-ups such as depression, anger, family breakdown, eating disorders, childhood trauma and has now spread all over America and has been established in over 65 countries of the world. Celebrate Recovery curriculum has now been translated into over 25 different languages and was established in the United Kingdom in 1999 in the City of Derby, England. It started a year later in Scotland in 2000, in a town in Midlothian, just outside the City of Edinburgh. Tony Turner is the UK Director of Celebrate Recovery and Tony and his wife Val can be contacted by email at [email protected] You can visit their website: www.celebraterecovery.co.uk 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. (Romans 7:18 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.) 2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (Philippians 2:13 For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.) 3. We made a decision to turn our will 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, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.) 4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. (Lamentations 3:40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.) 5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs. (James 5:16a Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.) 6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. co.uk(James 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.) 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.) 8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. (Luke 6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.) 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.) 10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. (1 Corinthians 10:12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!) 11. We 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. (Colossians 3:16a Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.) 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. (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.)

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