This recovery program is forward-looking.   Rather than wallowing in the past, or dredging up and rhearsing painful memories over and over, Celebrate Recovery focuses on the future.

 

This recovery program emphasizes personal responsibility.  Instead of playing the "accuse and excuse" game of victimization, this program helps people face up to their own poor choices and deal with what they can do something about.

  

This recovery program emphasized spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ.  The 3rd principle calls for people to make a total surrender of their lives to Christ.  Lasting recovery cannot happen without this step.  Everybody needs Jesus.

 

 This recovery program utilizes the biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow spiritually and emotionally.   It is built around small group interaction and the fellowship of a caring community. 

 

This recovery program addresses all types of habits, hurts and hang-ups.  Some recovery programs deal only with alcohol or drugs or another single problem.  But Celebrate Recovery is a "large umbrella" program under which a limitless number of issues can be dealt with.

 

Finally, this recovery program produces lay ministers!  Because Celebrate Recovery is biblical and church-based, it produces a continuous stream of people moving into ministry after they’ve found recovery in Christ.