Chemically Dependent!
Recognizing the Problem
If, when you honestly want to, you
find you cannot quit drinking or using entirely, or if you have
little control over the amount you consume, you are probably an
alcoholic and/or addict. If that is the case, you may be
suffering from a problem which only a spiritual solution will
conquer.
If you are as seriously alcoholic
or addicted as we were, we believe there is no
middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where
life was becoming impossible, and we had passed into the region
from which there is no return through human resources, we only
two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end,
blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as
best as we could; and the other was to accept Jesus Christ as
our Higher Power.
The Solution
By working
through the Eight Recovery Principles found in the Beatitudes
with Jesus Christ as your Higher Power, you can and will change!
You will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you
have been seeking, and you will no longer have to rely on your
dysfunctional, compulsive, and addictive behaviors as a
temporary "fix" for your pain.
By applying the biblical principles of conviction, conversion,
surrender, confession, restitution, prayer, quiet time,
witnessing, and helping one another, which are found within the
Eight Principles and the Christ-centered 12 Steps, you will
restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with
God.
Romans 7: 15-25 states...
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not
do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do,
I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself
who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good
lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire
to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is
not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--
this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it
is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does
it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is
right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's
law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body,
waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner
of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man
I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to
God-- through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my
mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave
to the law of sin." (NIV)
