Crossroads: A Step-By-Step Guide Away from Addiction (Facilitator’s Guide)

Walking with an addict through the process of change takes wisdom, love, and perseverance.

To walk with an addict is both a gift and a grief. In the Crossroads: A StepbyStep Guide Away from Addiction Facilitators Guide, Welch walks leaders through the process of loving, connecting with, and speaking truth to a group of addicts. This book contains helpful observations about the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual state common to most addicts. With access to Welchs solid theology on addiction and years of counseling experience, counselors, pastors, and others with a heart for hurting people can play an active role in Gods restorative work in the lives of those enslaved to an addiction.

Every one of us is a potential addict. In a pressurefilled world, the prospect of instant escape can be exhilarating. No matter the objectdrugs, alcohol, food, gambling, or sex, just to name a fewaddictions lure us. They extend the promise of pleasure. In the end, they deliver emptiness, death, and destruction. What began as an escape from the hassles of life becomes a form of bondage. Addiction is a voluntary slavery. Change doesnt come easily. But change is possible!

Crossroads was designed as a group study for those struggling with addiction. These ten steps, presented in author Ed Welchs trademark direct, nononsense style, provide a biblical framework for change. Welch is a wise and loving partner who walks beside readers on their journey to freedom. Along the way, they will learn to recognize the patterns of addiction, to choose wisdom over foolish desires, and to cling to the hope they have in Jesus, who sets captives free. The path away from addiction has been laid by a God who is full of surprises, who faithfully pursues those enslaved even though they have deliberately avoided him.

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