Crossroads: A Step-By-Step Guide Away from Addiction: Study Guide
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Overview
Every one of us is a potential addict. In a pressure-filled world, the prospect of instant escape can be exhilarating. No matter the object-drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, or sex, just to name a few-addictions lure us. They extend the promise of pleasure. In the end, they deliver emptiness, death, and destruction. What began as an escape from the hassles of life becomes a form of bondage. Addiction is a voluntary slavery. Change doesn't come easily. But change is possible!
Crossroads was designed as a group study for those struggling with addiction. These ten steps, presented in author Ed Welch’s trademark direct, no-nonsense style, provide a biblical framework for change. Welch is a wise and loving partner who walks beside readers on their journey to freedom. Along the way, they will learn to recognize the patterns of addiction, to choose wisdom over foolish desires, and to cling to the hope they have in Jesus, who sets captives free. The path away from addiction has been laid by a God who is full of surprises, who faithfully pursues those enslaved even though they have deliberately avoided him.
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- Helps you recognize the patterns of addiction.
- Provides a biblical framework for change.
- Pursues those enslaved even though they have deliberately avoided him.
At the heart, addiction is a spiritual problem. It demands a spiritual solution. No stranger to this topic, Ed Welch gently confronts struggling addicts with God's truth, both about their self-deception and the surprising grace of Jesus, who makes all things new. This study is truly centered on the person of Christ.
--Tim Clinton, EdD, President, American Association of Christian Counselors
Dr. Edward Welch has pioneered the movement in biblical counseling from behavior modification into a heart centered on worshiping the one and true living God. Dr. Welch accomplishes this shift by revealing the glory of God in his redemptive work and taking it out of the hands of self-sufficiency. With Crossroads, Dr. Welch has found a way to morph the addict's story into the Story of God by not letting the addict identify himself with his current sin of addiction, and by calling the addict to repentance and dependence on Christ.
--James Noriega, Shepherding Pastor Specializing in Addiction, Mars Hill Church, Seattle, WA
- Title: Crossroads Study Guide
- Author: Edward T. Welch
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781934885949, 1934885940
- Resource ID: LLS:CRSSRDSSTGD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-04T22:47:36Z
Edward T. Welch (PhD, University of Utah) is a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, where he has served since 1981. He holds a doctor of philosophy in counseling (neuropsychology) from the University of Utah and a master of divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary. Ed is a licensed psychologist and has been active in local church ministry for decades. He has been counseling for more than 35 years and has written extensively on the topics of depression, fear, and addictions. He has written numerous books, including When People Are Big and God Is Small (P&R Publishing, 1997), Shame Interrupted (New Growth Press, 2012), Side by Side (Crossway, 2015), and Created to Draw Near (Crossway, 2020). He blogs regularly at CCEF.org.