Celebrate Recovery is a Fraud

Celebrate Recovery is worse than Alcoholics Anonymous.

While the program pretends to be Biblical, the whole program is based on crude distortions of God's Word.

Mixture is worse than all law or all grace.

"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot." (Revelation 3: 15)

Jesus did not come to make bad men good, but rather bring dead men mired in trespasses to life and seated in heavenly places with His Son.

When we receive His New Life and His new standing, we no longer look at our thoughts and feelings, but assess who we are based on who He is, and where He is:

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. " (Ephesians 2: 4-7)

Paul tells us to focus on Jesus, for we now live in Him:

"1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3: 1-4)

We are not struggling in our fallen flesh anymore, for Christ condemned our sins and sin in the flesh at the Cross (Romans 8: 1-3).

We have no reason to identify with our dead bodies, but rather we can renew our minds to the truth of who we are in Christ Jesus!

"1Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." (1 John 3: 1-3)

and then

"17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)

Celebrate Recovery focuses people on their flesh, on their "old man" nature, which has been condemned fully and forever.

Instead of working steps, Paul invites every believed to grow  in knowledge of God's love for them (Ephesians 3:16-19), and then as we see who we are in Christ, we walk like Him, because He lives in us.

Then all the upsets and frustrations, the sinful emotions and thoughts, are taken away:

"31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." (Ephesians 4: 31-32)

We overcome in every area as we grow in grace, understanding how much God has forgiven us for Christ's sake.

Celebrate Recovery is a massive fraud, a man-made program which brings people back under law ot establish what God has already done for us through His Son. Instead of falling from grace through our efforts, let us Celebrate Christ's death and resurrection, and reign in life through His gifts of righteousness and superabounding grace!