Buffalo Lick Baptist Church
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2799 Wallonia Road
Cadiz, KY  42211
270.235.5629
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To present the Gospel for Salvation and Christian Growth through Prayer, Worship, Witness, Bible Study and Fellowship
  1. Realize I'm not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and
    that my life is unmanageable.  Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor. Matthew 5:3
  2. Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me
    recover.  Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4
  3. Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.  Happy are the
    meek. Matthew 5:5
  4. Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.  Happy are the
    pure in heart. Matthew 5:8
  5. Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my
    character defects.  Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires. Matthew 5:
  6. Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for
    harm I've done to others, except when to do so would be harm them or others.  Happy are the
    merciful. Happy are the peacemakers. Matthew 5:7, 9
  7. Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God
    and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
  8. Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my
    words.  Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires. Matthew 5:11
8 Recovery Principles based on the Beatitudes
(Matthew 5:3-10)
12 Steps to Recovery
  1. We admitted that we are powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors. That our lives
    had become unmanageable. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is in my sinful nature. For I
    have the desire to do what is good but I cannot carry it out. Romans 7:18
  2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.  For it is God
    who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:13
  3. We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God. Therefore, I urge you,
    brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God
    - this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1
  4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Let us examine our ways and
    test them, and let us return to the Lord. Lamentations 3:40
  5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.  
    Therefore, confess your sins to each other and ray for each other so that you may be healed.
    James 5:16
  6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.  Humble yourselves
    before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 4:10
  7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
    just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
  8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.  Do
    to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31
  9. We made direct amends to such people, whenever possible, except when to do so would injure
    them or others.  Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your
    brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be
    reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. Matthew 5:23-24
  10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. So, if you
    think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall. 1 Corinthians 10:12
  11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying
    only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry that out.  Let the word of Christ dwell in you
    richly. Colossians 3:16
  12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to
    others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.  Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin,
    you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
    Galatians 6:1