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| Meeting Details |
Our Mission |
We Believe |
The Most Excellent Way Ministry is a scripture-based
ministry for stuggling addicts. Meetings are on
Thursday evenings from 7:00 - 9:00pm. Contact
the church office for directions.
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Meeting Details
The meeting opens with prayer, followed by reading of the Opening
Statement and Attitudes of Victorious Living. The meeting leader
then presents a 20-30-minute Bible study. After the study, everyone
is encouraged to share about what the study meant to them, what
they are experiencing in their lives, their struggles and successes,
their prayer needs and praise reports, etc. The meeting closes
with group prayer, followed by prayer for individuals as requested
and/or as prompted by the Holy Spirit.
- Jesus is our focus.
- The Holy Spirit is our Guide
- The Word of God is our authority.
- New and eternal life in Christ is our goal!
Our Mission
The Most Excellent Way's mission is to find the lost sheep
who are wandering aimlessly through their lives in bondage
to chemical addiction and to bring them and their families
into the fold. We understand the plight of lost
sheep - we too were lost. Our Shepherd, Jesus, found
us and brought us into His fold.The Most Excellent Way is
to be reconciled to God through Jesus, and to:
- Grow in faith and the knowledge of Christ
- Understand the sin nature that leads to addiction and
obsessive behavior
- Learn and apply Biblical principles for living joy-filled,
productive lives
- Provide comfort and support to one another
- Confess our sins one to another
- Pray for one another
- Love one another
We Believe
- We believe the Bible is God's inerrant and infallible
Word, and it is the final authority on all issues concerning
our lives and "The Most Excellent Way."
- We believe the Bible says alcohol and drug addiction are
sin, not disease. Therefore, the facts of sin and separation
from God are dealt with as the roots of all addiction problems.
- We believe there is only one way we find forgiveness for
sin: through faith in Jesus Christ who died for our sins.
He is the only authority and power able to forgive our sins.
- We believe there is only one way to be reconciled to God
and experience total victory over the sin of addiction:
Jesus said: "You must be born again" (John 3:7
NKJV) by the Spirit. That occurs when we ask Jesus Christ
to become our personal Lord and Savior.
- We believe, once "born again," we are empowered
by the Spirit of God to overcome any sin, including drugs
and alcohol.
- We believe permanent victory over the sin of addiction
occurs when we deny our own will, and begin to willingly
submit our lives to the perfect will of God on a daily basis.
- We believe in teaching, encouraging and discipling new
believers from God's Word as led by His Holy Spirit.
- We believe knowing God's truths protects us from man's
false ideas and doctrines prevalent in today's world. "Jesus
said to those who believed Him, 'If you abide in My word,
you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.'" John 8:31-32 NKJV
- We believe Jesus is the truth that makes us free. He is
the source of truth,the perfect standard of what is right.
He frees us from self-deception, andHis Spirit gives us
discernment : ". . . that we should no longer be children,
tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful
plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in
all things into Him who is the head-Christ . . ." Ephesians
4:14-5 NKJV
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