Comments on: Cleaning House: Confession and Sexual Addiction http://www.nacronline.com Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Satchmo http://www.nacronline.com/articles-on-the-twelve-steps/cleaning-house-confession-and-sexual-addiction/comment-page-1#comment-23795 Satchmo Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:07:01 +0000 http://www.christiansurvivors.com/cri/nacr/wordpress/?page_id=89#comment-23795 This type of confession has been missing from the church for a long time. After suffering myself from the effects of addiction, the last place I feel comfortable sharing about my defects and sins is in a church setting. I dont know why this should be so, because the church is the one place I should feel comfortable. Yet it is the last place I want my true nature to be known. I definitely see the profitability of confession, even if its just writing it down honestly in a journal for our own eyes to see. But, after reading this article, it does seem even more beneficial to have someone experienced in "cleaning house" to guide us and keep us honest, and steer us back to the loving and forgiving power of Christ that is needed. I pray for the day when our church will embrace such a practice again of confessing and praying for one another that we may be healed. I have for a long time been opposed to the 12 step program, because I have often heard the expression "once an alcoholic always an ahcoholic". This saying seems to be opposed to the biblical teaching of Paul, that shows us we are new creations in Christ. And as a person that was deliverd from the effects of alcoholism over 15 years ago, and feel it has been or could only be a miracle in my life, I don't feel this rings true any longer that I am currently an alcoholic. I believe as the word quoted here is true, that healing takes place, and a full healing from all the effects of dysfunction is possible, as we continue to surrender to Christ and follow him through forgiveness and healing. I pray that others also may know this type of miracle in their lives. This type of confession has been missing from the church for a long time. After suffering myself from the effects of addiction, the last place I feel comfortable sharing about my defects and sins is in a church setting.

I dont know why this should be so, because the church is the one place I should feel comfortable. Yet it is the last place I want my true nature to be known.

I definitely see the profitability of confession, even if its just writing it down honestly in a journal for our own eyes to see. But, after reading this article, it does seem even more beneficial to have someone experienced in “cleaning house” to guide us and keep us honest, and steer us back to the loving and forgiving power of Christ that is needed.

I pray for the day when our church will embrace such a practice again of confessing and praying for one another that we may be healed.

I have for a long time been opposed to the 12 step program, because I have often heard the expression “once an alcoholic always an ahcoholic”. This saying seems to be opposed to the biblical teaching of Paul, that shows us we are new creations in Christ.

And as a person that was deliverd from the effects of alcoholism over 15 years ago, and feel it has been or could only be a miracle in my life, I don’t feel this rings true any longer that I am currently an alcoholic.

I believe as the word quoted here is true, that healing takes place, and a full healing from all the effects of dysfunction is possible, as we continue to surrender to Christ and follow him through forgiveness and healing. I pray that others also may know this type of miracle in their lives.

]]> By: Sibyl http://www.nacronline.com/articles-on-the-twelve-steps/cleaning-house-confession-and-sexual-addiction/comment-page-1#comment-9192 Sibyl Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:38:33 +0000 http://www.christiansurvivors.com/cri/nacr/wordpress/?page_id=89#comment-9192 PS - William R, Thank you so much for this awesome article. Confession in the church has been on my mind a lot lately. There are Restarting groups and Celebrate Recovery Step Study groups as well as Cursillo, Emmaus and Tres Dias reunion groups in addition to AA in our area that serve somewhat like James 5:16 groups. Renovare (Richard Foster and Dallas Willard) started accountability spiritual formation groups, but there are none in our area. I would still like to see James 5:16 Covenant Community groups...with an emphasis on the kind of committed koinonia that the Holy Spirit has in mind. PS – William R,
Thank you so much for this awesome article. Confession in the church has been on my mind a lot lately. There are Restarting groups and Celebrate Recovery Step Study groups as well as Cursillo, Emmaus and Tres Dias reunion groups in addition to AA in our area that serve somewhat like James 5:16 groups.

Renovare (Richard Foster and Dallas Willard) started accountability spiritual formation groups, but there are none in our area.

I would still like to see James 5:16 Covenant Community groups…with an emphasis on the kind of committed koinonia that the Holy Spirit has in mind.

]]> By: Sibyl http://www.nacronline.com/articles-on-the-twelve-steps/cleaning-house-confession-and-sexual-addiction/comment-page-1#comment-9189 Sibyl Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:31:10 +0000 http://www.christiansurvivors.com/cri/nacr/wordpress/?page_id=89#comment-9189 Bonfoeffer's statement, “believers who have once been horrified by the dreadfulness of their own sins that nailed Jesus to the Cross will no longer be horrified by even the rankest sins of another,” makes me see I John 1:8-9 in a different light. How different, how tender and safe the fellowship of the early church must have been. I have not found that yet...or maybe I have not been that kind of safe yet myself. Bonfoeffer’s statement, “believers who have once been horrified by the dreadfulness of their own sins that nailed Jesus to the Cross will no longer be horrified by even the rankest sins of another,” makes me see I John 1:8-9 in a different light. How different, how tender and safe the fellowship of the early church must have been. I have not found that yet…or maybe I have not been that kind of safe yet myself.

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