Step 12 - Regenerate

Because of our new lives in Christ, we carry God’s message of reconciliation to others and practice these principles in every aspect of our live.

Foundation 12

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18)

Key Theme

Call all people to be fully devoted followers of Christ.

Remember

Unite with God in his purpose for your life and participate in his plan for the world.

Things to Remember

• Praise God! Celebrate his work in the lives of you group members. He has done great work
• Recovery is not an event or season—it is a daily way of living.
• True freedom is not the absence of trouble or temptation. Freedom is the ability to fully experience God’s goodness unhindered by sin while living out our purpose in this world. Understand the gospel and why we share it.
• We need to plan how we daily deepen our relationship with God (Step 11), daily live by God’s grace in response to sin (Step 10) and carry God’s message of reconciliation to others (Step 12).
• This week participants will build regeneration plans (Footprint 12).

Key Questions

• Day 6, Q1: Apart from finishing the curriculum, what was your greatest celebration this week?
• Day 6, Q2: Focus on filling out a personal regeneration plan (Footprint 12).

Encouragement for Participants

• Take time to praise God for the changes he has made in this group! Take time to encourage one another with the changes they see in each other.
• Read your re:generation plans together (Footprint 12). If the group is too large to finish reading them, break into smaller groups (recovery partners).
• 1 John 1:3-4, “that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.”
• Have them tell stories of God using the changes he has made in them in the lives of others.

Encouragement for the Leaders

• Celebrate that God wants to use our mess for his glory! He has done this with you and now God is doing it with your group. 3 John 1:4, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”
• Encourage everyone to come to the commencement celebration. Get the time and location from ministry leaders. Invite mentors. Celebrate God’s work as a group and in other lives at re:generation. Receive a re:generation commission, commemoration & charge to carry God’s message of reconciliation to others.
• Ask participants to fill out the Participant Growth Survey accessed by the QR code on Week 3, Day 6 if they haven’t done so already.
• Affirm with co-leader whom would make good re:generation leaders, mentors, recovery guides.
• Save some time at the end to praise God. Pray Psalm 71 over your group. Pray this for yourself too.
• Thank you for being available to Christ and his purposes. Continue to glorify and enjoy God in his purpose for your life as a new creation.

“I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone . . . So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.” (Psalm 71:14–16, 18)”