The Shadow-free Zone
The Exodus from Church to a
Transformational Community of Intimacy
od started giving me the vision for this church in the midst of my own personal recovery from sexual addiction. In a therapy session with my counselor, I blurted out, “Wouldn’t it be great if there could be a church for addicts? I mean where we all understood that we are in recovery and could feel safe enough to be completely transparent?” Becky, my counselor, instantly lit up and said, “That would be incredible.”
From that day forward I began to pray that God would show me what it would look like. He began to unveil a vision that is completely different from anything that I had ever known to be “church.” And to be honest, it frightened and intrigued me. A church for addicts? Really? Yes, really.
In classes and in recovery I learned the four defective beliefs that all addicts have. They are as follows:
- I am a defective person. Something is just wrong with me.
- Therefore, if you really knew me, if you knew where I have been and what I have done and what I am really like, you would not and could not love me.
- With that being true, I have to meet my own needs. No one else is going to do it for me.
- (Insert addiction here: crack, alcohol, sex, work, TV, gambling) is my most important need.
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