Why Christian Rehab Programs Are So Important

By Nancy Gardner


Addictions can get into the way of their victim, resulting in so many negative and often tragic outcomes. They also affect the lives of those who interact with their victims on a daily basis. They are often deadly as they spiral out of control. To recover from any addiction, victims need a supportive environment designed to cater for their physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs. This is why Christian rehab programs are so important.

These rehabilitation regimen's combine two crucial approaches to recovery, the faith based approach and the science based approach. This means that they employ the services of trained behavior specialists counselors and psychologists to tackle the science based aspects of addiction recovery. In addition to that they engage the services of religious leaders, counselors or evangelists who try to encourage addicts to walk the path of the faith, or return to the path, whichever is applicable.

These types of rehabilitation structures are relevant because, like everyone else, Christians struggle with life choices from time to time. This happens from time to time despite the believer's efforts to remain on the straight and narrow path. The path of addiction, though, threatens the physical and spiritual future of the believer. As a result, they may yield to temptation and become embroiled in the downward spiral known as addiction. This gives rise to the need for institutions aimed at rehabilitating the Christian addict.

Some of these rehabilitation organizations open their doors to non-Christians. This is not difficult to fathom since one of the pillars of Christianity is evangelism. This is the main reason behind the establishment of many charity based rehabilitation centers. Christian groups often establish these entities to not only rehabilitate addicts but also to draw them closer to God.

Pretty much all denominations of church organizations have support systems designed to help drug and alcohol addicts. This is a natural occurrence since Christendom has so many different denominations. Each denomination has its own set of principles and precepts and these are reflected in the rehabilitation centers that are maintained or governed by the church.

There are physical locations for the majority of these rehabilitation programs. This is because church organizations either dedicate a section of their buildings for the purpose or find funds to build structures to house the ministry. This need is more real for those churches that are located in communities that have serious social, infrastructural and economic challenges. It is in these communities that addiction problems are most likely to be rampant as people find means of escape from the struggles they face.

Others are located in the virtual world. For some rehabilitation programs, a combination of the physical and virtual settings are utilized. The virtual offices allow recovering addicts to access care and support in a convenient fashion.

The addiction recovery outreach ministry is one of the modern church ministries that has evolved out of an ever changing and growing world, which presents new challenges and new vulnerabilities for people of faith. As long as people keep suffering from addiction problems, faith based recovery systems will be in need.




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