First Baptist is proud to host a Celebrate Recovery group weekly on Tuesdays in the Studio.


Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, biblical, and balanced program that helps us overcome our hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Our purpose is to focus on God's healing power through fellowship with others. By working the Twelve Steps and Eight Beatitude principles, people share experiences and strengths while working recovery together. This way, we become willing to accept God's grace and experience real change for our hurts, hang-ups, and habits.


For more information, contact Mike Jones or the church office (270-842-0331).


Tuesdays

Meal - 5:30 p.m. in the Social Center

Devotion - 6:00 p.m. in the Studio


For more, email Mike Jones.


God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will, so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr


Realize I’m not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. (Step 1)

“Happy are those who know that they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3a TEV


Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him and that He has the power to help me recover. (Step 2)

“Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 TEV, NIV


Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control. (Step 3)

“Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5a TEV


Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. (Steps 4 and 5)

“Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8a TEV


Voluntarily submit to any and all changes God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. (Steps 6 and 7)
“Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires” Matthew 5:6a TEV


Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when to do so would harm them or others. (Steps 8 and 9)
“Happy are the merciful.” Matthew 5:7a TEV; “Happy are the peacemakers” Matthew 5:9 TEV


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. (Steps 10 and 11)


Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and my words. (Step 12)
“Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.” Matthew 5:10 TEV