Background
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered recovery program developed by John Baker and launched by Saddleback Church in 1991 to help people struggling with hurts, habits and hang-ups.
The purpose of this ministry is to fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through the 8 Recovery Principles. This experience allows us to be changed. By working and applying these Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually. We become free from our addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others.
The Celebrate Recovery ministry in Corsicana was started by Grace Community Church and now is a combined effort of both Grace Community Church and First Baptist Church.
If you are ready to start the journey to recovery, come join us.
Meeting Times
Celebrate Recovery meets every Monday evening at 6:30 pm in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church. The Fellowship Hall is located on the ground floor of the McKie Building. Childcare is provided.
Regular Schedule:
6:00 pm Doors Open
6:30 pm Large Group
7:15 pm Open Share Groups
8:00 pm Common Corner Cafe
Small Group Guidelines
We want to make sure Celebrate Recovery is a safe place for those with hurts, habits, and hang-ups. We ask anyone involved with our program to follow these guidelines…
1. Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
2. There will be no cross talk please. Cross talk is when two individuals engage in dialogue, excluding all others. Each person is free to express feelings without interruption.
3. We are here to support one another. We will not attempt to "fix" another.
4. Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group!
5. Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered group.
8 Recovery Principles
Principle 1
Realize I'm not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable.
Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor.
Principle 2
Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to him, and that he has the power to help me recover.
Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Principle 3
Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.
Happy are the meek.
Principle 4
Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust.
Happy are the pure in heart.
Principle 5
Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires.
Principle 6
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.
Happy are the merciful" "Happy are the peacemakers.
Principle 7
Reserve a daily time with God for self examination, Bible readings and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
Principle 8
Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words.
Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.
Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as a pathway to peace;
Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is; not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
by Reinhold Niebuhr
