This summer, we begin our new worship series which will focus on finding freedom through 12-Step Spirituality from Alcoholics Anonymous. The New Testament calls it salvation (Sozo), healing, wellness, and wholeness, and the 12-Step program calls it recovery.

Franciscan Father and theologian Richard Rohr writes in his book, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps, “We are all addicts. Human beings are addictive by nature. Addiction is a modern name and honest description for what the biblical tradition called ‘sin,’ and medieval Christians called ‘attachments.’ Substance addictions like alcohol and drugs are merely the most visible form of addiction, but actually we are all addicts…” (p. 22).

Through the story of the Prodigal Son, Jesus tells this story for a much more startling point. He was redefining what it means to be lost. Listening to the two brothers’ story in the Prodigal Son, and also the father’s story, we see that we can be lost, and we can also be found.  The only requirement for being found or receiving the forgiveness, healing, and life-giving grace of God is to know that we need it.

Do you need it?  Come and join us as we begin this important step to find freedom through 12-Step Spirituality.

July 7, 2024

Locked Up in Our Own Devices

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