Living Waters is an in-depth, Christ-centered program for people seeking healing in areas of sexual and relational brokenness. A healing, teaching and discipleship series, Living Waters addresses the reality that we are all broken in our ability to love others well. The goal of Living Waters is to lay a foundation for sexual and relational wholeness in our lives.
Through the
worship, teaching, prayer, and small groups of Living Waters we learn
about:
· - God's powerful love for us and how Jesus is central to our
hope for wholeness
· - The depth of our brokenness and our profound need for Him
· - The power of the Cross to restore our souls, sexuality, and
relationships
· - The process of walking out our healing
· - Our place in the church and loving others honorably
Who
is Living Waters for?
Living Waters applies to everyone.
People who are struggling with sexual and relational brokenness
including codependency, pornography addiction, promiscuity, homosexuality, sexual
ambivalence, childhood sexual abuse, transgender issues, and difficulty
in establishing and sustaining intimacy in relationships have found hope
and healing through Living Waters.
Thankfully, Christ's capacity to touch and restore us at deep levels
of shame and brokenness extends to all of us, regardless of the specifics
of our issue. You can read testimonies from people who's lives
have been changed on the "Life Stories" section of this website.
How
is Living Waters presented?
Living Waters is a 23-lesson program taught in a closed group format. The leaders have been trained and a confidentiality
policy is in place to help ensure trust and safety in the group. Each
meeting includes:
WORSHIP - We focus our attention and praise on God rather than on our problems.
THE WORD - Living Waters teachings combine psychological insights and biblical truths that help us to know God and ourselves better.
THE WORKS OF JESUS - Through healing prayer in large and small group settings, we invite the Holy Spirit to heal our various wounds. We bring our sins, and those committed against us, to the Lord who is faithful to set us free.
Foundational to Living Waters is the reality that God created us in His image as male and female. Therefore we value men and women working out their healing together. Great healing comes as men and women minister and receive alongside one another, thereby reflecting God's intention and character. (Although small groups are single-sex, both genders participate together in worship, teaching, and prayer in the large group.) Living Waters uses a detailed guidebook that includes teachings, questions and additional readings that help us move from brokenness to maturity.
· Acknowledging our need for God
· How "the fall" affects our sexuality and relationships
· Receiving the Father's love
· Who we are as men and women
· The cross and confession
· Renouncing our idols
· Reconciliation between men and women
· Roots of gender brokenness
· Healing from sexual abuse
· Restoring the true self through the cross
· Understanding and overcoming temptation
· Overcoming sexual addiction
· Embracing the church as our healing community
· Building healthy relationships
· Walking as mature Christians
Chapter 1: Introduction to Living Waters
Chapter 2: Acknowledging Our Need
Chapter 3: The Father's Pursuit of Us
Chapter 4: Jesus, the Son
Chapter 5: The Realignment and
Empowering of the Will
Relational Brokenness
Chapter 6: Welcoming Him Into Our Brokenness
Chapter 7: Triggers of Gender Insecurity
Chapter 8: Broken Boundaries, Invaded Heart
Chapter 9: Narcissism and Relational Idolatry
Chapter 10: The Cross: Resurrecting the True Self
Chapter 11: Forgiving Others
Chapter 12: Hope for Gender Wholeness:
Restoring the True Feminine
Chapter 13: Hope for Gender Wholeness:
Restoring the True Masculine
Chapter 14: Embracing the Process
Chapter 15: Temptation: Bound or Determined?
Chapter 16: Freedom from Sexual Addiction
Chapter 17: Devotion to Christ through His Community
Chapter 18: Healthy Same-Sex Friendships
Chapter 19: Healthy Heterosexuality
Chapter 20: Toward Christian Maturity
For more information about this program, including tuition information, please call the Reconciliation Ministries office at 586.739.5114.