Worship Gone Wrong: Rethinking Addiction

Counseling Common Struggles

Most help for addiction aims at stopping the behavior. Scripture aims further. This course works through SCCI's addiction, affliction, affection model: treating the problem as an addiction leads to recovery, treating it as a stronghold leads to restraint, and treating it as misdirected worship leads to redemption. You will learn the assessment questions that come before any counseling plan, how to name a person's functional god, and how to trace foolish behavior down to the heart using Fruit to Root. Ed Welch supplies the idolatry underneath and the reason Scripture speaks about this in the language of war. Practice comes through three kinds of fool, each needing a different response, and the course ends where Garrett Higbee begins: freedom in Christ is freedom for something, not only freedom from something.

1 hour
10 units
4 sections
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What You'll Work Through

Each unit is a conversation, not a page to read. The tutor asks you to explain, apply, and work with the material until it holds.

Chapter 1: Free For, Not Only Free From

Section 1.1: The Freedom Reframe

  • Freedom in Christ is freedom FOR something, not only freedom FROM something
  • A person who has only stopped a behavior is not yet truly free

Chapter 2: The Model That Names the Course

Section 2.1: Addiction, Affliction, Affection

  • The Three Framings: Addiction, Affliction, Affection Side by Side
  • Conforming Versus Transforming: Why Only Redemption Reaches the Worshipper

Section 2.2: Idolatry and the Language of War

  • The idol is never only the visible thing you can see
  • Scripture treats out-of-control desire as war, fought in the Spirit's power

Chapter 3: Assess and Trace the Heart

Section 3.1: Assessment Before a Plan

  • The Assessment Questions That Come Before Any Plan

Section 3.2: Fruit to Root and the Way Forward

  • Tracing Foolishness from Fruit to Root

Chapter 4: Three Kinds of Fool, and Coming Home to Freedom

Section 4.1: Confronting the Simple, Scornful, and Malicious Fool

  • Matching Response to the Type of Fool: Simple, Scornful, and Malicious

Section 4.2: What Freedom For Looks Like

  • Naming What Each Person Is Freed For, Not Only From

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