The Serenity Church of Charlotte

The Serenity Church of Charlotte

What are your gods?

The Serenity Church of Charlotte asks: What are the gods in your life? Do any of the following areas dominate your thinking, emotions or actions?

The Serenity Church may be for you if you recognize yourself or someone you love in the below list:

  • You belong to a Recovery Program such as AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), NA (Narcotics Anonymous),  or are thinking about joining a Recovery Group.
  • You feel your “Higher Power” tugging at your heart to return to church, or to try attending church for the first time.
  • You are desiring to better understand The Bible’s description of “the God of Our Understanding”, but don’t feel comfortable or accepted in most traditional church settings.
  • You have little or no understanding of a “Higher Power”, but have a willingness to learn what the Bible says about Him.

OR… you recognize yourself or someone in the below list. Do any of the following areas dominate your thinking, emotions or actions? If so, they may represent addictions or dependencies that are probably creating havoc in your life:

  • Alcohol or/and drugs
  • Work, achievements and success
  • Money addictions such as over-spending, gambling or hoarding
  • Control addictions, especially if they surface in personal, sexual, family or business relationships
  • Food addictions
  • Sexual addictions
  • Approval dependency (the need to please people)
  • Rescuing patterns toward other persons (“Enabling”)
  • Dependency on “toxic” relationships
  • Physical illness obsession (Hypochondria)
  • Excessive exercise & physical conditioning
  • Excessive emphasis on cosmetics, clothes, cosmetic surgery: Trying to look good on the outside and avoiding the “inside”
  • Academic obsessions & excessive intellectualizing
  • Religiosity or religious legalism: the preoccupation with the form and rules and regulations of religion, rather than benefiting from the “spiritual” message
  • General perfectionism
  • Obsessive-Compulsive cleaning and obsessing about possible contaminations
  • Over-emphasis on organizing and structuring
  • Materialism

[From “Serenity, A Companion For 12 Step Recovery”: Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc. 1990]

If you can relate to one or more of the above, DON’T DESPAIR! There is hope; there is help.

TOOLS TO AID US IN OUR SPIRITUAL WALK:
“Serenity: A Companion For Twelve Step Recovery”
If you need a Serenity Bible, please ask someone about how to get one.