Lifeline
a non-residential community-based effort to address the problems of addictions, using the Living Free model
Living Free/Turning Point
a model for small groups that includes training and curriculum for churches
Teen Challenge
a faith-based residential recovery
Life-Plan
a self-inventory and goal setting for clients
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What Lifeline Connections Can Accomplish
1. Begin ministry to those who are unable to function reasonably in their addiction, referring and assisting them to go on to a long-term residential program, if they make the choice and have exhausted all other options.
2. Provide relevant ministry to those that are reasonably functional in their addiction. This also allows families to work through issues as a family, encouraging the client to be responsible for daily necessities. The client needs to make a commitment to receive help and hope through the support groups and caring relationships with Lifeline staff.
3. Provide effective follow-up to those clients that have completed long-term recovery programs, providing continued positive peer choice, accountability, boundaries, and consistency.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 Components of Lifeline Connection Recovery
Lifeline ministries are based on the following five components of recovery:
Decision – I have come to a point in my life where I will finally admit that I am sick and tired of being sick and tired! I make the decision to get serious about recovery! See Joshua 24:15
Positive Peer Choice – I will surround myself with people who are serious about my life-change and who will encourage me. See Psalm 1:1
Accountability – I will hold myself accountable for my actions and decisions based on my Life-plan. I will make myself accountable to others who can help me evaluate my progress and help me to be responsible for personal inventory. See Romans 14:12
Boundaries – I will learn the word “no” and understand that there are people I must not see and places where I must not go. See Jeremiah 5:22
Consistency – I understand that it’s not how I start my Life-plan that matters, but how consistent I am in the implementation! I realize that recovery and discipleship are for a lifetime. See Matthew 24:13
Life-Controlling Problems
A life-controlling problem is anything that masters our lives.
’Everything is permissible for me’—but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible for me’—but I will not be mastered by anything. I Corinthians 6:12
Life-controlling problems fall into three categories:
Substance
drugs, alcohol, food, prescription medications
Behavior
Gambling, pornography, outbursts of anger, etc.
Relationships
Co-dependent, unhealthy, or enmeshed relationships
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