On Thursday the 25th I spoke at our church’s "Celebrate Recovery" program for people battling addictions. I basically shared the gospel and gave an invitaion to receive Christ who has the power to free us.
A man can, for example, try to conquer his own addiction to alcohol (and maybe with some success), but without Christ he’ll just go to hell as a "recovering alcoholic". There may be many recovering alcoholics in hell who have asked Jesus to be their "higher power" to help them get over their alcohoilism. But they never trusted Him as their Lord to deal with the bigger problem called "sin".
The meeting went great and at least one of the men indicated their desire to give their life to Jesus. I told the group that even as Christians we struggle with sin, but the difference is that with Jesus we have the power of the Holy Spirit, and without Him we only have our own willpower. Praise God that he doesn’t leave us to ourselves when we come to Him. He comes to take over and change us from the inside out.
--Mark
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