{"id":5595,"date":"2015-07-01T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2015-07-02T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T09:41:47","slug":"the-recovery-minded-church-available-for-pre-order-and-a-peek-at-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2015\/07\/the-recovery-minded-church-available-for-pre-order-and-a-peek-at-the-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"The Recovery-Minded Church Available for Pre-Order\u2014and a Peek at the Cover!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been too long! Vacation, a family lice infestation, sickness, and preparation for a home renovation\u2014much of it occurring at the same time\u2014fun, huh?\u2014have kept me away from this intersection. But I couldn&#8217;t <em>not<\/em> share my delight at the news that <em>The Recovery-Minded Church: Loving and Ministering to People with Addiction<\/em> is now available on Amazon for pre-order (and, in turn, a lowest price guarantee) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Recovery-Minded-Church-Ministering-Addiction\/dp\/0830841253\">here<\/a>. (And this classy book cover, kudos to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivpress.com\/\"> InterVarsity Press<\/a>, helps it stand out.) What this means is that you and\/or your church and church leadership can have your copies of<em> The Recovery-Minded Church<\/em> just in time for Christmas and the New Year\u2014and for thinking, dreaming and praying about new opportunities for spiritual growth and compelling ministry priorities in 2016. We hope one of these will be the needs of people with addiction, a hidden epidemic in our pews and just outside our doors. This book will help you know how to relate to, help and refer to treatment people with various addictions.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your interest and support! This book would not be what it is without the help of those of you who undertook our survey of church leaders and provided your feedback regarding church leaders&#8217; biggest questions about ministering to people with addictions. My colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addiction.com\/author\/jonathan-benz\/\">Jonathan Benz <\/a>and I extend our sincere thanks.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Recovery-Minded Church<\/em> would also not be what it is without the commitment of the company we serve, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com\/\">Elements Behavioral Health (EBH), <\/a>to extending much-needed clinical treatment to more Americans who need it. With its family of addiction recovery programs nationwide, EBH is a leading provider of both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiandrugrehab.com\/\">Christian drug and alcohol rehab<\/a> and other non-faith-based treatment programs for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com\/treatment-centers\/recovery-place-florida-drug-rehab\/\">drug and alcohol addiction<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com\/eating-disorders\/treatment-for-eating-disorders-the-initial-steps\/\">eating disorders<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com\/treatment-centers\/the-ranch-sex-and-love-addiction\/\">sex and love addiction<\/a>, as well as for their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com\/treatment\/dual-diagnosis-treatment\/\">dual diagnoses<\/a> (like anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, among other mental disorders).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5596\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/308\/2015\/07\/Recovery-Minded-Church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5596 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/308\/2015\/07\/Recovery-Minded-Church.jpg\" alt=\"The Recovery-Minded Church, by Jonathan Benz, with Kristina Robb-Dover, equips churches and their leaders for more effective ministry to people with addictions.\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Recovery-Minded Churc<\/em>h (December 2015, InterVarsity Press) equips churches and their leaders for more effective ministry to people with addictions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been too long! Vacation, a family lice infestation, sickness, and preparation for a home renovation\u2014much of it occurring at the same time\u2014fun, huh?\u2014have kept me away from this intersection. But I couldn&#8217;t not share my delight at the news that The Recovery-Minded Church: Loving and Ministering to People with Addiction is now available on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,119,2323,105,15,13,65],"tags":[2266,2355,2356,1678,2351,2353,2352,2357,2006,2358,2354],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-church","category-healing","category-hope","category-mission","category-spirituality","category-the-bible","tag-christian-rehab","tag-drug-and-alcohol-addiction","tag-dual-diagnoses","tag-eating-disorders","tag-elements-behavioral-health","tag-intervarsity-press","tag-jonathan-benz","tag-process-addiction","tag-sex-addiction","tag-substance-abuse-disorder","tag-the-recovery-minded-church"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Recovery-Minded Church Available for Pre-Order\u2014and a Peek at the Cover! - Fellowship of Saints and Sinners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Recovery-Minded Church Available for Pre-Order\u2014and a Peek at the Cover! - Fellowship of Saints and Sinners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s been too long! 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