LEADERSHIP TRAINING Tracy Strawberry

1. LEADERSHIP TRAINING Tracy Strawberry

2. As We Begin… • TURN ON YOUR CELL PHONES:For a FREE copy of this Presentation, send an email now to serene@strawberryministries.orgAnd now, please turn off or silence your cell phones. Thank you Kindly

3. The Focal Points: • To discuss general addiction and recovery basics. • To introduce you to the mindset of the recovery community and how it is developed. • To define the role of the local church in the recovery community. • How the secular 12 Step Model of Recovery can be used to your benefit to lead the lost to Jesus Christ. • How Clean Sober & Saved can be used as a powerful tool to help you minister and lead the recovery community to Jesus Christ.

4. Addiction and Recovery Basics 2016 Information from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. www.ncadd.org • Over 17.6 million people suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence along with several million more who engage in risky binge drinking patterns. • More than half of all adults have a family history of alcoholism or problem drinking. • More than 7 million children live in a household where at least 1 parent is dependent on or abuses alcohol.

5. Addiction and Recovery Basics • Alcohol abuse or addictions of any kind cause: • Serious Health Complications: Up to 40% of all hospital beds in the US are being used to treat health conditions that are related to alcohol consumption. (does not include beds for maternity or intensive care patients). • Damage to emotional stability, finances, career, ability to become a productive member of society, family member or any other relational unit. • Serious damage to one’s family, friends and community.

6. Addiction and Recovery Basics • NOTE: This number only references the individuals addicted to alcohol, no other forms of addiction. • Do you think there is a mission field out there within the recovery community?

7. Addiction and Recovery Basics • The most recognized organization for the treatment of alcoholism is Alcoholics Anonymous. • The organization’s founders developed the original 12-Step Model and Program of recovery in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith. Their stated “primary purpose” is to help alcoholics “stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.” All other 12-steps models of recovery are derived from this original fellowship.

8. Addiction and Recovery Basics • Narcotics Anonymous • Emotions Anonymous • Over-Eaters Anonymous • Co-Dependency Anonymous • Sexaholics Anonymous • Gambling Anonymous • Alanon: Anonymous program of recovery offered to family and friends of those addicted.

9. Addiction and Recovery Basics • 12 Step Model of Recovery: -Most sought after solution for addicts of all kinds and their loved ones. • Insurance companies require this model to approve coverage: EBT-Evidence Based Treatment. This model has been proven affective for the treatment of the specified disease of addiction.

10. Addiction and Recovery Basics “We must gain an understanding of the disease of addiction as well as the solution in order to understand the role of the local Community and the local Church in the recovery community, on a unified front.”

11. Alcoholics Anonymous developed the model of recovery that has established an entire community. “The Recovery Community”

12. The Power of Community • Community can be defined as a group of people sharing common interests, a way of life, heritage, or beliefs. • Great comfort is found within communities of people who are just like you. You are accepted and understood. You can relate to the people and desire to spend time with them. This is called fellowship. Within a fellowship you find support, love, care, acceptance and share common ground or beliefs of some sort. These are a few elements that create the Powerful Dynamic of Community.

13. The Power of Community • The recovery community finds great comfort, safety, understanding, acceptance, and solution within their fellowship. • Mindset: A unified thinking is developed within a fellowship. Even though individuals within any community or fellowship disagree at times, their common bond, beliefs, primary purpose and mindset hold them together. • To better minister to the recovery community, it is helpful to understand the “Mindset” of the people you will encounter.

14. The Recovery Mindset: Reaching This Community“Jesus”-Understands the Mindset

15. Jesus: Our greatest example and teacher • Religious Community: Referenced the Law • When Jesus calls Peter: • Drop your nets • I will make you a fisher of men • Farming Community: • As a child of God we are restored, redeemed, an adopted child into our new family to become part of His unified Church, in service, to build the Kingdom of God with the Hope of Glory in our hearts. • An earthly approach with relational language that speaks to the Mindset of the Community to deliver the eternal truth.

16. The Recovery Mindset: Reaching This Community“Paul”-Understands the Mindset

17. 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

18. What’s the point? He’s not affected by their rituals, traditions or program. He stays true to His “Primary Purpose”-Preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. • We don’t have to argue or be offended by the 12 step programs. Paul knows what is important. Delivering the gospel message. • One of Paul’s request to the Ephesians is found in Ephesians 6:19: Pray for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel. • Earthly approach with relational language that speaks to the mindset of the community to deliver the eternal truth.

19. “There is an earthly, relational approach that speaks to the Mindset of the community that leads the people into the eternal truth.”

20. The approach is relational. Community • The language earthly. Speaks to the Mindset. • The truth, eternal. Final result. • Jesus meets us right where we are at and He will do the same thing in the recovery community through us.

21. Recovery Mindset: The relational language of the recovery community that speaks to their Mindset includes: The Big Book, 12 Step Program, Meetings & Recovery Fellowship.

22. The Big Book is one of the recovery communities greatest forms of influence. I have heard many addicts describe it as their bible and their “meetings” as their Church. • The Big Book describes how to overcome alcoholism. • It also includes “stories” of people who are sober to deliver hope to others. Christians call them testimonies. • It states the books main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. • It describes the problem of the alcoholic. • It also delivers the solution to the one addicted: That solution is spiritual.

23. It is imperative to know at this point that the 12 steps were originally derived from the Bible. Bill Wilson, the founder of AA, had a Spiritual Awakening, his Rebirth, while being ministered to by a reverend with biblical direction. • Jesus Christ and The Power of The Holy Spirit are not defined in the steps. They purposely left Jesus and The Holy Spirit out to ensure that everyone could get “sober” regardless of who or what you believe. The primary purpose became carrying the message of alcoholics anonymous instead of the “gospel message of Jesus Christ” to alcoholics that suffer.

24. As you become educated about the program and the 12 steps, you clearly begin to see where they got their material to create this secular program and Who they received it from. Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit along with His Word, the bible. Let’s take a closer look!

25. The Recovery Mindset: • God created us to be a three part being: Spirit, Soul and Body. • The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous explains their problem to be a 3-fold disease: Body, Mind and Spirit.

26. The Recovery Mindset: BODY • Body: “We have an allergy of the body”, which can be found in the Doctors Opinion of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous where there is an 8 page delivery of this description.

27. The Recovery Mindset: MIND • Strange Mental Block: Page 42 describes this strange mental block as “an obsession of the mind”. • As Christians, we know that our thinking is part of our soul.

28. The Recovery Mindset: SPIRIT • Spirit: Spiritual Malady: A chronic, spiritual disease. Page 64 states this, “Resentment is the “number one offender”. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. • As Christians we know we are “Spiritually dead” without Jesus Christ.

29. The Big Book’s Offered Solution: Which leads us right into the “role” of the Church in the recovery community!

30. “If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried. We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could will these things with all our might, but the needed power wasn't there. Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.” (BB pp44-45) • Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? (BB pp44-45)

31. “Well, that's exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. That means we have written a book which we believe to be spiritual as well as moral. And it means, of course, that we are going to talk about God.” (BB pp44-45). • And thus the birth of “the spiritual & moral community”. I am spiritual because of my program and my own understanding of God. God can be anything I create Him to be.

32. Why do they believe this so strongly? They have stopped drinking or drugging. They are clean and sober but not yet saved. They are still not right with God. They are deceived. • 2 Timothy 3:5 describes this clearly:  …having a form of godliness but denying its power.

33. Stay in Our Lane: The Role of The Local Church in the Recovery Community is to Clearly Define & Deliver The Spiritual Solution.

34. Our primary purpose is defined by the Bible: • To Preach the gospel • Make Disciples • Baptize them • Teach them to obey all Jesus commanded • And remember-He is with you always

35. Mark 1:14-15: Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.“ • We are to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God, repent and believe in the gospel and lead others to do the same.

36. Matthew 18:16-20: Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

37. The Role of The Local ChurchClearly Define and Deliver the Spiritual Solution.

38. Movie: God’s not Dead: Even playing field with all. • Free-Will, the power of choice is never taken away. • God never takes away free-will and neither should we. • Stick with what you know: • Do I still go to meetings? Take my medication? Chemo-Therapy? My insulin? • Sample Response: I believe God will speak to you about those things. AND they will through the Holy Spirit as they grow in Christ through His Word. • BUT-I do know this for sure, that God’s wants you to grow in your understanding of Him through His Word, the bible. You do that by coming to Church, getting into a bible-study and getting connected.

39. Treatment Centers: Doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, therapists, nutritionists, CLEAN SOBER & SAVED-Pastors and ministers. (REFERRALS) • NOTE: Every Christian is called to share the gospel and make disciples. Treatment Centers-Clean, Sober & Saved-specific assignments. • Local Church: The Spiritual part of the “disease” is dealt with by the specialists in the Spiritual Solution with our primary purpose defined- We carry the gospel message of our Lord Jesus Christ to all. This is our specialty! This is our lane!

40. The Role of The Local ChurchSuggestions.

41. Become experts in the Gospel message • Leadership Training that clearly defines the gospel message • Witness training: Teach them how to witness “THE GOSPEL MESSAGE” • New believers class that clearly defines the gospel for new Christians. • (SALVATION TO SERVING: BE CAREFUL!)

42. High School & College Campus Ministry: • Reach them when they are young. • Many parents come to the Lord through their children. • Prevention: Many addictions develop at this age

43. Outside Resources: • 24 Hour Prayer Lines: • They can call anytime day or night if they can’t reach you. • Doctors, Treatment Centers, Non-for-Profits • Government Agencies-government help and assistance programs • Education and Opportunities: • Grants, Colleges with special program, Vocational Counseling, Training, Job assistance agencies.

44. The 12 Steps of Recoveryto our Benefit.

45. The 12 Steps of Recoveryto our Benefit. AA 12 Steps CSS Biblical 12 Steps Clean Sober & Saved (CSS) uses biblical 12 steps to lead you into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the process of change through the Person and power of The Holy Spirit based on the Bible. • Traditional 12 steps of recovery were designed to lead you into a relationship with God and into a process of change based on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.

46. The 12 Steps of Recoveryto our Benefit. AA 12 Steps CSS Biblical 12 Steps God is clearly defined as well as how He works according to His Word, the Bible. • God is not clearly defined as you are encouraged to create your own understanding of Him and how He works.-Or is He?

47. The 12 Steps of Recoveryto our Benefit. AA 12 Steps CSS Biblical 12 Steps CSS Clarifies. • The 12 steps do begin to clarify God. They state, Him as well as give God-a person-characteristics as well as a demand on Him.

48. The 12 Steps of RecoveryRemember, the Big Book teaches that when the “spiritual malady” is overcome, we straighten out mentally & physically. Pg.64 We as Christians know that we are Spiritually dead, not sick. Once you “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these things shall be added unto you.- Matthew 6:33

49. Step One: AA: The Program CSS: God’s Plan We are powerless over the sinful nature that separates us from God and enslaves us to sin. • We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-(addiction) that our lives had become unmanageable.

50. Step One: AA: The Program CSS: God’s Plan Scripture defines meaning. Powerless over the sinful nature gets to the “root cause”. Result: Separated from God / enslaved to sin. Defines greater problem. • References the Big Book for readings. • Powerless over alcohol • Result: Unmanageable life