Product Description

Shrinkwrapped four-pack includes one copy of each of the four revised participant's guides.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27622 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

From the Back Cover
Shrinkwrapped four-pack includes one copy of each of the four revised participant's guides.

About the Author
John Baker developed the Celebrate Recovery ministry at Saddleback Church. He is currently serving as pastor of ministries, overseeing the entire C.L.A.S.S. 31 process, staffing the 150 ministries, and helping start new ministries.

John Baker desarrolló el ministerio Celebremos la Recuperación en la Iglesia de Saddleback. El actualmente esta sirviendo como pastor del ministerio, y ademas supervisa todo el proceso del programa C.L.A.S.S. 31, inplementando 150 ministerios. Y ademas ayuda a empezar nuevos ministerios.

Customer Reviews

It's a tool. Will work if you use it properly
Most secular recovery groups such as AA, SAA, etc. pass on the working of the twelve steps through oral tradition through one's sponsor. Some groups such as SA and Celebrate Recovery formalize the process by working through the steps in workbooks. These book tag along with the twelve steps as well as something called the "eight principles". The eight principles may be useful to some but it is actually just a restatement of the twelve steps that Pastor Rick Warren used as a sermon outline. These eight principles are very loosely tied to the beautitudes.

The bottom line, is if you want to work the steps to get better, these books will do it. Nothing out there is perfect. There are some questions that are very good and others that aren't so insightful.

It is just a matter of you bringing to the table the desire and seriousness. As they say in the programs, anyone who attempts to work the twelve steps in their lives albiet not perfectly but with a good deal of seriousness, will get better.

These are not fill-in-the-blank Bible studies. These are intended for people who have every intention of doing the twelve steps - the moral inventory, reading the moral inventory to one's sponsor, the defect characters list, making amends, etc. If you don't intend to do the steps, these books are worthless.

On a final note, these are not designed to do one your own. These are intended to do with a group - most preferably with someone in the group who has gone through the 12 steps before and believe what they can accomplish. These lessons are meant to be discussed and applied in a safe environment where it is OK to share about anything.

In our Celebrate Recovery group, we have strong rules that we don't do mixed gender groups - we do men with men and women with women.

Genuine recovery for all of life's hang ups...
Participant Guide One in a series of four. A great beginning to wholeness. I used this guide alone and in a small group setting and it has helped me tremendously in my journey to wholeness. I like the fact that it is Bible based and Christ Centered. The use of scripture and the relationship to the AA principles was enlightening...I wonder if AA participants realize that their program is rooted in Christianity? A great pick for those who need healing, hope, and help.

Great set of books
Good tool to combine the truths of scripture with the insights of the twelve steps.