The goal of CR is help people become free and whole. But, the
goal is not that we be free from depression, free from addiction, free from an
immoral lifestyle, free from bad relationships, free from fear of rejection,
free from low self esteem . All of that
is just one part of the process, not the goal. Our goal is to help each other be truly free
to become who we were created and redeemed to be. The point is not just to be free FROM the
junk. The point is to be free TO be everything that God intends us to be. Jesus has great plans for each one of us. We were created to be wonderful expressions
of God, showing forth His glory, His power, His grace.
What the words Celebrate Recovery mean
As the CR leaders have met over the last few weeks, we
discussed several possible changes we may make. One was to change the name. It
seems that celebrate recovery gets a
response from people that is low. Just to recover seems to indicate not free,
like a recovering alcoholic, recovering shoplifter, better, but still
struggling. But, I looked up the words
Celebrate means to show happiness that something good or special
has happened
I like that. I’m a celebrating kind of person. I like the
idea of showing happiness, of having a party.
Recovery means to get back something previously lost or its
equivalent; the return of something to a normal or improved state after a
setback or loss
So, at Celebrate Recovery, we are showing happiness that
something good and special has happened, that we are returning to the normal
state that was previously lost. We are
getting back to the condition that God created us to be in at the very
beginning. We are becoming what God
created and intended us to be.
God’s original plan
We see God’s original intention in Gen 1:26-28 Then God said, "Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth
and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created
man in his own image,in the image of God he created him; male and female he
created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful
and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish
of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that
moves on the earth."
THAT is the way we started. Created to be like God, in His
image, looking like Him, expressing the character of God, spreading the rule of
God over the earth, living in perfect relationship with God, and with each
other.
So, that is the normal state that was lost, and that is the state that we want to recover. That is the goal of Celebrate Recovery.
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