Questions and Answers that Can Help You
Decide to Become Part of a Friendly, Supportive, Life-changing Program
Q: What is Celebrate Recovery (CR)?
A: A church-sponsored fellowship and celebration of God’s healing power in our lives through eight recovery principles and the Christ-centered twelve steps. This experience allows us to be changed. By sharing experiences, strengths, and hopes with one another we can become willing to accept God’s grace and power in solving our life’s problems.
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Q: Can I benefit from becoming part of CR?
A: If you feel that hurts, hang-ups, and/or habits are keeping you from experiencing the fuller, richer life you desire, this program is definitely for you. It doesn’t matter whether you are a person who has not attended church or if you are a lifetime seasoned worker in the church, CR can help God change your life for the better because:
- CR is based on God’s word, the Bible
- CR looks to what you can become through God’s grace,
not painful memories of your past
- CR emphasizes personal responsibility and positive action.
- CR stresses the importance of a life commitment to Jesus Christ
- CR utilizes the Biblical truths that we need each other to grow
spiritually and emotionally
- CR addresses all types of habits, hurts, and hang-ups
- All types of persons who have experienced continued problems
with chemical additions, co-dependency, and relationships, sex, anger, resentments, shopping, overeating, and many other dysfunctional habits have found the tools, support, and power to change through the fellowship of CR. Also, thousands of persons who have experienced deep hurts and painful experiences in the past have found genuine healing in the fellowship of CR.
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Q: How does CR work?
A: CR at Broadway will hold weekly Celebration Service and small group share meetings on Sunday evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (one hour of worship and one hour of share groups conducted by Broadway’s CR Leadership Team). An informal fellowship hour will follow from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in Broadway’s Cup of Hope.
Also, step study small study groups conducted by CR Leadership Team members will form and meet weekly to assist you in working through CR’s eight principles and twelve recovery steps.
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Q: Do I need to be at all meetings to be part of CR?
A: No, but it is highly recommended that you participate in as many meetings as possible to experience maximum benefits for your spiritual growth. The Sunday night worship service and group sharing is the most important place to start and experience the healing power of God’s grace with other strugglers of hurts, hang-ups, and habits.
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Q: Who are the CR Leadership Team and what is their purpose and function?
A: Broadway’s CR Leadership Team is a group of individuals who are committed to Jesus Christ and have completed CR leadership training. CR team members are servant leaders who organize functions, communicate information, encourage fellowship, facilitate group meetings and train future leaders related to Broadway’s CR program.
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Q: Is CR a Broadway church function?
A: Yes and No. Broadway United Methodist Church embraces, sponsors, and supports CR as one of its many ministries. However, Celebrate Recovery is an international program begun more than a decade ago at Saddleback Valley Community Church in California. Its pastor is Rick Warren, author of 40 Days of Purpose and 40 Days of Community, programs from which Broadway has benefited. CR is a vibrant and successful program now operating in more than 300 churches across the United States and in some foreign countries.
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