B r eaking the Chains Seminar The Biblical Provisions for Addiction Supplement to DVD’s True & Lasting Freedom in Christ Student Workbook Th e SESSION 6 Freedom from ADDICTION Th e THOUGHT LIFE How to Defeat TEMPTATION Walking by the SPIRIT Sancti cation and the Command to SERVE SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 SESSION 5 EFFECTIVE Scripture Memory, Assignments, Exercises, Quizzes, Accountability, Intensive, Emphatically Biblical What is ADDICTION?
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Is freedom from addiction possible? Not abstinence—Freedom .
You bet it is—as long as you follow God’s biblical
blueprint for living free in Christ.
You are about to experience an addictions curriculumunlike any other. This will be an exciting adventure oflearning, challenge, and life-transformation.
You’ll discover the Scriptural perspective on addictionand you will learn the emphatically biblical principlesthat result in true and lasting freedom.
This is an intensive and rigorous curriculum you areundertaking. It is essential that you follow the seminarexactly as the instructions explain.
Ready to go? Great!
Thank you for choosing The Provision House Breaking the Chains Seminar on DVD .
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The publication of Dr. Herbert Fingarette’sbook, Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism
as a Disease changed everything (University of
California Press, 1982). “[N]o leading research
authorities accept the classic disease concept . . .
[and] No one in the debate is seeking to resurrect
the classic disease concept” (Fingarette 1988, pp. 3,
22). Despite this, “Almost everything the American
public believes to be the scientific truth about
addiction is false” (Fingarette 1988, 1).
Tough words for those indoctrinated in the
disease concept. But the fact remains, the disease
concept is an utterly discredited theory of addiction
(except among those who are part of the multi-
billion dollar recovery industry). Since Fingarette,
dozens of books and innumerable studies have been
published echoing the same factual conclusion.
Professors, researchers, scholars, authors,
and even residential and non-residential recovery
centers have adopted other philosophical
approaches to resolving addictions, but there is no
consensus among them as to what addiction is or
how to address it. The church has been particularly
slow in realizing that there are much better options
than the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Worse yet, the church has been virtually silent in
the discussion, offering no emphatically biblical
understanding of addiction. Hence, even the churchand Christian recovery ministries cannot agree
on what addiction is. Some scholarly study and
research is called for in an attempt to arrive at a
unified definition of addiction and, therefore, the
approach that should be taken in helping believers
find true and lasting freedom in Christ. That’s what
we are trying to accomplish at Provision House.
We believe that addiction is a spiritual
stronghold within which sin predominates. Two of
the effects of sin are that it enslaves (John 8:34)
[A] biblical approach to addictions must “teach spiritual truth and disciplines. Instruction and life-on-life
discipleship about how to do spiritual battle and fight the good fight for faith and obedience. This should
include practical biblical teaching on sanctification and important concepts like putting off/putting on and renewing the mind. The [addicted person] must understand sin and sanctification”.
Instructions1. Student Advisor or Group LeaderEach student is strongly urged to enlist the help o an advisor whose primary purpose is to encourage
you throughout the seminar. While this role may be flled by a group leader [i the seminar is being taken
in a group setting], we recommend an individual advisor or each student. This will ensure adequate
time or requent discussion and support during the seminar and continued availability o the advisor
(encourager) ollowing your successul completion o the seminar.
The advisor should be someone you know well, trust to keep your issue(s) confdential, not a relative,
and o the same gender. Your advisor is urged to download the ree Student Advisor’s Manual rom
the Provision House website. It contains many very helpul suggestions or ensuring your success.
Advisors should not assume they already know how best to help you, particularly those who have never
experienced what you have. In our live seminars, students who did not have an advisor experienced only
about a 30% success rate.
2. DVD’s There is a DVD corresponding to each session. The DVD is to be watched beore completing any otheractivity in this seminar. Each session contains 6 principles. The principles appear on ull, 2-page spreads.
Sessions 3 & 4 contain blank graphics pages. These are pages with graphics rom the DVD’s that the
student might like to fll in themselves either while watching the DVD or at a later time.
3. Scripture Memory There is at least one memory verse or passage to be memorized or each session. Other verses or
passages may be assigned at the discretion o the student advisor or group leader.
4. QuizzesEach session in the workbook contains a quiz. Each quiz is simply the principles rom the session but
in the orm o questions plus the memory verse(s). The quiz is to be taken ater viewing the DVD and
attaining profciency o the principles in the workbook. While the quiz may be studied in advance, the
quiz should be taken “closed book”. Mastery o the principles should be demonstrated through quiz
perormance beore proceeding to the next session. Evaluation o your quiz and session profciency
should be conducted by your advisor or group leader.
5. ExercisesEach session in the workbook contains an Exercise section. It is recommended to complete the exercises
beore taking the quiz. While the quizzes are designed to reinorce retention o the material, the exercisesare designed to prompt deep and serious reection on your relationship with God. You should review
your answers with your advisor or group leader.
6. Church AttendanceYou are required to attend church as least weekly, but preerably as oten as possible. I mid-week services
or classes are oered, it is strongly recommended you attend.
7. Road MapYour workbook includes a Road Map or maintaining your Freedom. This tool is designed to assist you and
your advisor or group leader in resolving any remaining personal issues that resulted rom the addictivebehavior. Any other tool which accomplishes the same goal can be used as long as it is understood that
unresolved personal issues, such as fnancial or relational damage, can sabotage your reedom i not