CROSS Recovery Modesto

Seven Keys to Recovery
The Steps that Nehemiah took are very specific steps, very orderly and very effective! Taken in order they will lead to a full recovery of usefulness. All addiction is simply the manifestation of sin

If you listen to most churches, they use secular-sounding drug treatment verbiage in their ministry. The word "Sin' has been charged to disease/sickness. Once you remove sin from a Christian's vocabulary and from the church's outreach approach to the lost, it becomes watered down and eventually non-effective. Acknowledging all substance abuse / drug addiction as sin is an addict's only real hope for recovery. Once we acknowledge and confess our addictions as sin, we can then repent and receive forgiveness, cleansing, and overcoming power for all of life's situations. By receiving God's forgiveness it will actually clear out conscience, which in turn, proves God is real, all powerful and loving. This IS the basis of Christianity. We cannot remove the power. People first need to identify their own substance abuse as sin so they can truly repent for it. If you leave out calling any type of substance abuse a sin then you have nothing to repent of and receive forgiveness from. God is not going to for HIs forgiveness or deliverance on anyone. The fact still remains; Jesus Chirst forgives sins today just as He has for over 2,000 years.