Celebrate Recovery Volumes 5-8 Participants Guide Updated Edition, The Journey Continues 35th Anniversary Edition: A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in Your Church

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The Celebrate Recovery Participants Guide volumes 5-8, Updated Edition is a revolutionary second step study curriculum that is designed to be used after completing the Celebrate Recovery Participants Guide volumes 1-4. In the twenty-five lessons of The Journey Continues, you will experience Christ-centered and biblically based studies filled with brand new acrostics, deeper questions, and more helpful Bible verses created by John Baker and Johnny Baker.

In Part Five: Moving Forward in Gods Grace, you will focus on a deeper study of the first 3 of 8 recovery principles:

• Realize Im not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. "Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor" (Matthew 5:3).
• 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" (Matthew 5:4).
• Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christs care and control. "Happy are the meek" (Matthew 5:5).

In Part 6: Asking God to Grow My Character, you will focus on a deeper study of the fourth recovery principle:

• Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8).

In Part 7: Honoring God by Making Repairs, you will focus on a deeper study of principles 4-6 of the recovery process:

• Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8).
• 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" (Matthew 5:6).
• 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" (Matthew 5:7). "Happy are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5:9).

In Part 8: Living Out the Message of Christ, you will focus on a deeper study of the final two principles on the road to recovery:

• Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination. Bible reading and prayer in order to know God and his will for my life and to gain the power to follow his will.
• 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" (Matthew 5:10).

Author Bio

John Baker is the founder of Celebrate Recovery, a ministry started at Saddleback Church. It is estimated that over the last 25 years more than 3.5 million people have gone through this Christ-centered recovery program. There are currently over 27,000 churches that have weekly Celebrate Recovery meetings. John has been on staff since Celebrate Recovery started. He has served as the Pastor of Membership, the Pastor of Ministries, and is currently the Pastor of Saddleback Church's Signature Ministries. He is also serving as one of the nine Elder Pastors at Saddleback. John is a nationally known speaker and trainer in helping churches start Celebrate Recovery ministries. John's writing accomplishments include Celebrate Recovery's The Journey Begins Curriculum, Life's Healing Choices, the Celebrate Recovery Study Bible (general editor), and The Landing and Celebration Place (coauthor). John's newest books are Your First Step to Celebrate Recovery and The Celebrate Recovery Devotional (coauthor). John and his wife Cheryl, the cofounder of Celebrate Recovery, have been married for more than four decades and have served together in Celebrate Recovery since the beginning. They have two adult children, Laura and Johnny, and five grandchildren.