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Addictions and the Child of God: Personal, Peer, and Pastoral Implications

Addictions and the Child of God: Personal, Peer, and Pastoral Implications. Minnesota District Leaders Workshop March 3, 2012 Belle Plaine , Minnesota Pastor Alan H. Siggelkow , MDiv , STM, MSW. Addictions and the Child of God: Personal, Peer, and Pastoral Implications. Personal

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Addictions and the Child of God: Personal, Peer, and Pastoral Implications

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  1. Addictions and the Child of God:Personal, Peer, and Pastoral Implications Minnesota District Leaders Workshop March 3, 2012 Belle Plaine, Minnesota Pastor Alan H. Siggelkow, MDiv, STM, MSW

  2. Addictions and the Child of God:Personal, Peer, and Pastoral Implications • Personal • Addictions – Definitions • Scripture description: Abuse and Dependence • Secular: Abuse and Dependence • Alcohol • The issue • An intervention strategy • Personal • Peer • Pastoral

  3. Personal • Who I was • Who I am • Who I will be

  4. Who I was • 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 • 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were.

  5. Who I am • But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

  6. Christ For All • 2 Corinthians 5:19 • 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. • Who is doing the action? • For how many? • What has he done? • What does it mean for us that God has reconciled us to himself? • Through whom has he done it?

  7. Christ for me • Galatians 3:26-27 • 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. • How did I become a child of God? • Describe what it means to be a child of God?

  8. The Act of God in ChristFor the worldFor me • 1 John 1:7 • 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. • 1 John 2:1-2 • 1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

  9. Who I will be • John 11:25-27 • 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” • 27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”

  10. Sons of God – Bound for Heaven – Encourage Each Other • 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 • 11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, 12 encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. • 1 Thessalonians 4:18 • 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

  11. In a Sinful World • Romans 13:13-14 • 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

  12. This too, is who I am – My sinful flesh • Romans 7:18-19 • 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

  13. My victory – in Christ! • Romans 7:23-25 • 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!    

  14. Addictions: Definitions • Scripture Description • Abuse • Dependence

  15. Scripture – Description - Abuse • Abuse – Drunkenness is a sin • 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 • 9Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. • How would you understand the words “the sexually immoral,” in the sense of the concept of abuse?

  16. Addiction – Does Scripture call addiction a sin? • Abuse always precedes addiction. Abuse is a sin. • But I can be a recovering addict. I am not sinning with the substance or the thing as a recovering addict. • The concept of being mastered by something also seems to have an active quality to it.

  17. An Implied Progression: Is This a Scriptural Definition of Dependence/Addiction? • Luke 21:34 • 34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.” • This passage seems to be implying a progressive or addictive problem connected with dissipation, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life that dulls our sense of reality and our preparation for the Day of Judgment.

  18. Scripture Description of Dependence: “Being Caught in a Sin” • The concept of being mastered by something also seems to have an active quality to it. • 2 Peter 2:19 • …“people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”

  19. Being mastered by something and the First Commandment: “You shall have no other Gods.” • 1 Corinthians 6:12-15 • 12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! • What do “not being mastered by anything” and the First Commandment say about addictions or dependence?

  20. Definitions Abuse – DSM IV • A maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by one or more the following occurring with a 12-month period • Recurrent substance use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home • Recurrent substance use in situations in which it is physically hazardous • Recurrent substance-related legal problems • Continued substance use despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effect of the substance • The symptoms have never met the criteria for substance dependence for this class of substance

  21. Definitions Dependence DSM IV • A maladaptive pattern of substance use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period: • 1. Tolerance, as defined by either of the following: • a. A need for markedly increased amounts of the substance to achieve intoxication or desired effect • b. Markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of the substance

  22. Secular Definition - continued • 2. Withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following: • a. The characteristic withdrawal syndrome of the substance • b. The same(or a closely related) substance is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms • 3. The substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended. (One cannot predict how much one will drink once one gets started.)

  23. Secular Definition - Continued • 4. There is persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use. • 5. A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance (e.g., visiting multiple doctors or driving long distances), to use the substance (chain-smoking), or to recover from its effects. • 6. Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use.

  24. Secular Definition - continued • 7. The substance use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance (e.g., current cocaine use despite recognition of cocaine-induced depression, or continued drinking despite recognition that an ulcer was made worse by alcohol consumption).

  25. At Risk Alcohol • Men • 14 or more drinks per week, average • 5 plus drinks on any given day in the past 12 months • Women • 7 or more drinks per week, average • 4 plus drinks on any given day in the past 12 months • 1 drink = 12 oz beer, 5 oz table wine, 1.5oz liquor

  26. Talking To Your Member- Your Friend – Yourself – About Drinking • See the handout.

  27. An Alcohol Culture Within the WELS? Because of the area of the world in which we live? Because of the way we grew up? Because we believe that you have to have (serve) alcohol in order to have fun?

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