! Philosophy of Ministry Equipping churches to engage culture with the gospel.! Reform churches! Redeem culture! Make disciples!
!! Returning Christ to Recovery and Recovery to the Church! Basic Belief: The Scriptures are sufficient and the gospel is superior in overcoming addictions and all other forms of sin and suffering.
Three-part disease model taught in treatment settings and AA Spiritual malady! Physical! allergy!! craving! Mental obsession! Debate: Is alcoholism a disease? Concede to the culture without forsaking a biblical worldview.
Three-part disease model taught in treatment settings and AA Spiritual Malady! Physical! Allergy! Mental Obsession!
Three-part disease model taught in treatment settings and AA Spiritual malady! Physical! allergy! Mental obsession!
Three-part disease model taught in treatment settings and AA Spiritual malady! Physical! allergy! Mental obsession! False gospel promising freedom/recovery from the spiritual malady apart from the redemptive work of Christ (God s plan).!
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks- drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well- known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a @irm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery. The Doctors Opinion Alcoholics Anonymous
Symptoms Irritable, restless and discontent!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! See others!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! See others! Think/Obsess!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! See others! Think/Obsess! 1 st drink!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! See others! Spree! Think/Obsess! 1 st drink!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! 1 st drink!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink!
Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink!
Resolutions! Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink!
Resolutions! Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink!
That s me! It will be through relating to their experience that you gain the con@idence of the addicted.
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle! Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink!
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle! Spiritual Malady! Irritable, restless and discontent! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink! Self-knowledge alone avails us nothing!
Observa/on apart from revela/on leads to specula/on as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle! Spiritual Malady! Romans 5:12! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink!
Spiritual Problem: Sin Symptoms: Irritable, Restless, Discontent Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned! ROMANS 5:12
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Romans 5:12! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink! the marring of Shalom (peace) - Driscoll!
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Rom. 8:22! Remorse! See others! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink! Awaiting rescue, redemption!
We groan For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. ROMANS 8:22
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! Temptation! James 1:13-16! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! 1 st drink! Real personal evil and influence enticing our flesh through the world!
Tempta>on Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. JAMES 1:13-15
Making it Personal I want for you to more than cognitively understand addition, but to relate to it because you understand you do the same things at the level of the heart. How does Satan bait your hook?
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. JAMES 1:16 Tempta>on
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! Jeremiah 17:9 Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! DEATH! Action of Sin! Heart of the problem is a problem of the heart. Think/Obsess! Lie: Romans 1:25
The Lie because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. ROMANS 1:25
Though addiction may have mental and physical aspects, it is primarily a worship disorder.
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! ADDICTION: Rom. 1:24,26,28 Remorse! Mark 7:20-23 Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action of Sin! Trying to @ix a spiritual problem with a created thing.
Given over God gave them up mentally, physically and spiritually.
Counterfeit forms of Redemption If you are dead you can t resurrect yourself through self- help, looking to others or dead religious activity (working STEPS devoid of Jesus).
RELIGIOUS AND IRRELIGIOUS ADDICITON
HOPE Romans 8:20-21 Remorse! Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Psalm 51 Desire for! Relief! Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action! Hope amidst brokenness!
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ROMANS 8:20-21
GOD! Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! Christ! Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action!
New heart, new affec/ons And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your Xlesh and give you a heart of Xlesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Ezekiel 36:26-27
By what means?
Our Tes/mony For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 CORINTHANS 4:6
GOD! Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! Christ! Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action!
For if, because of one man s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. ROMANS 5:17
GOD! Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Repentance 2 Cor. 7:10 Remorse! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Christ! Temptation! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action!
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 2 Corinthians 7:10
Reordered worship
Moving Repentance Counter- Clockwise
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! 2 Corinthians 7:10! Spirit! Life and Peace! Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action!
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! Spirit! Life and Peace! Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action!
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! Spirit! Life and Peace! Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action!
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! Spirit! Life and Peace! 1 Cor. 10:13-14! Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action!
Resolutions! Insanity Cycle Spiritual Malady! of Sin! Desire for! Relief! Remorse! Spirit! Life and Peace! Temptation! Injuries (pain)! Spree! Think/Obsess! DEATH! Action!