Celebrate Recovery and Life’s Healing Choices

Use Life’s Healing Choices as a compliment to the 25 Celebrate Recovery lessons. (For a copy of Life's Healing Choices, written by John Baker, Founder of Celebrate Recovery, go to www.celebraterecovery.com)

Tonight I will be teaching VICTORY Lesson 15, from the CR Leaders Guide. Teaching is actually a challenge for me; let me rephrase that: it's terrifying! I know my way around the ALT backwards and forward but for me, teaching stretches my faith. In spite of my fear I am trying something new tonight. I am incorporating Life’s Healing Choices in my lesson. Here’s how:

I read through Choice 5, Making Changes, (page 129.) For my introduction I summarize the main elements with my personal experience, which sets up the VICTORY acrostic beautifully! I continue through each acrostic fill-in and scriptures, from the CR Leaders Guide, editing a couple of the existing illustrations with a few of my own and adding additional fundamentals from LHC's. Then I wrap up the lesson with the 3-action steps as described on pages 144-148 of LHC's.

Incorporating Life’s Healing Choices into my CR Lesson does 3 things:

1. Teaches me more about my character defects
2. Brings a fresh perspective to Principle 5
3. And, keeps the acrostics and scriptures remained in tact!

The only thing I really understand about public speaking is this: Capture the attention of the participants with an introduction that keeps them listening, and end with “an task", a tool a participant is able to apply to their recovery.

To better equip your participants, I highly recommend making Life's Healing Choices available on your information table along side the CR Bible and 4 Participant's Guides.

I hope this helps!