The long range goal of Celebrate Recovery Northwest is for you to bring your hurts, habits, and hang-ups to Christ and seek His healing through a recovery process known as the Twelve Steps. As you work through the steps and submit to Him, healing comes and with it His peace (Phil.4:7). This is not an event but a process.
Finally, Step 12 (Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others…) calls us to service. It is our hope that you will join us in helping others through Celebrate Recovery Northwest. Because of the pain you have had from your hurts, habits and hang-ups, you are uniquely equipped to minister to others who are facing similar struggles (see 2 Corinthians 1:3-7). There is no greater privilege than walking with others and seeing the changes in their lives.
God Has a Sense of Humor
Isn't it awesome that God would use 2 drunks, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, to create The Twelve Steps and AA? AA is a picture of Acts 2 in action. The Twelve Steps are a biblical road map of how to live your life.
The Difference Between AA and Celebrate Recovery
The principle difference between AA (and other 12 Step programs) and Celebrate Recovery is that Celebrate Recovery focuses on Jesus Christ as the true Higher Power and uses God's word as the authority in relation to the 12 Steps. In addition, Celebrate Recovery's 8 Principles to the Road to Recovery tie the 12 Steps to Jesus Christ's teachings known as the Beatitudes given in The Sermon on the Mount.
History of Celebrate Recovery Northwest
In January,2003, six men agreed to come together to pray and seek God's guidance about starting a Celebrate Recovery at NBC. It became clear that the ministry should be pursued. A group of 10 attended a CR Regional Workshop in March. We asked the Lord to raise up the leaders to start Celebrate Recovery Northwest and He did. In August, 2003, 6 people went the 3 day CR Summit in California . Celebrate Recovery Northwest began September 11, 2003 , using the materials created by Celebrate Recovery at Saddleback Church.
The Twelve Steps have a Christian heritage as they were modeled after the Oxford Society (see the Oxford Connection ). In order to reach people who would be offended by Jesus or the church, AA focused on a Higher Power.
John Baker started Celebrate Recovery with the main purpose of being able to talk about Jesus Christ as his Higher Power. For the history of Celebrate Recovery see John Baker's Testimony.
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