Great Commission Fellowship

Fulfilling the Great Commission through a new generation.

Living Free

To contact us:

 

Phone: 859.858.8301

E-mail: margaret@gcfi.com

 

GCF Ministry Center

225 S. Walnut St.

Wilmore, KY  40390

 

Mailing address:

P.O Box 162

Wilmore, KY  40390

Living free is a weekly meeting of men and women who are seeking to live free from the cycles and habits of addiction!  Together, these men and women are rebuilding their lives and are learning to be radically dependent on Jesus and their recovery community.

Living Free exists to help transform a generation of men and women broken by addictions into men and women who are experiencing the joy of obediently following Jesus!

Living Free meets on Tuesday evenings at the GCF (Great Commission Fellowship) Ministry Center.  Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and end around 8:30 pm.  Most meetings are followed by a coffee hour where you can just “hang out.”

Who can come?

Currently, Living Free offers support groups for men struggling with sexual addiction, men and women struggling with chemical addictions and family members of addicts who want to break the bonds of codependency.  The only requirement for attending is a heart felt desire to break free from the cycle of addiction!

What Happens?

Living Free uses a Christian approach to the 12 Steps made famous by Alcoholics Anonymous.  Following a brief teaching on one of the 12 steps, people break up into groups to talk about life and how things are going.  You can also work closely with a group leader or mentor who can help you stay sober each day.

Anonymity?

Anonymity and confidentiality are totally important principles for Living Free.  Those who come to Living Free groups must sign anonymity and confidentiality covenants.  What is said during a Living Free meetings stays in the Living Free meeting!  By the way, you don’t have to talk when you come to a meeting.  We try to listen to one another and support one another in the battle to beat addictions and codependency.

The 12 Steps . . .

1. We admitted that we were powerless over ____; that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. We came to believe that God; through Jesus Christ, can restore us to sanity.

3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.

4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of all our wrongs.

6. We were entirely ready to have God, through Jesus Christ, remove all these defects of our character.

7. We humbly asked God to remove all of our shortcomings.

8. We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. We continued to take a personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11. We seek to grow in our relationship with Jesus through prayer, meditation and obedience to His will.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening, we try to carry the message of Christ’s grace and restoration to others who are addicted to chemicals or behaviors.

Addiction:  habitual dependency on chemicals or behaviors that provide temporary alterations to your state of mind, but leave you feeling worse than you were before you used it or did it.

 

Codependency:  a friend or family member of an addict whose behaviors enable the addict to

continue in their dependency on the chemical or behavior.