The following book review is on the book:
Recovering
Through God’s Truth by Steve Curington.
Steve Curington is the late
founder of the Reformers Unanimous International organization. This organization
is the world’s largest faith based addiction recovery program. The organization
takes a straight from the scripture approach to dealing with not just alcohol
and drug addiction but also any other addictive or yoke bonding behavior in one’s
life that may inhibit or prevent their relationship with Christ.
The
organization took its founding after many years of battling alcohol and drug
addiction by its founder and author of this book Steve Curington. After giving
his life over to the Lord Curington began to realize the difficulties of staying
clean and breaking free with the help of state funded programs, secular social
organizations and many other recovery programs and methods outside the confines
of the church and biblical doctrine. Reformers Unanimous was then formed as a breakthrough
in recovery treatment for those with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. RU grants
assistance and power to obtain freedom with the help and life changing power of
Christ and the Word of God, something that a believer will not find in worldly
based institutions outside the church.
Recovering
Through God’s Truth is the outline of what Steve Curington centered
RU’s program around. The sub title for the book is “10 Principles of Freedom
for the Addicted Nation.” These 10 principles are the core of the program and
are the focus of the program as well as the benchmarks for breaking free of
addictive behavior as taught by Curington. Some of these principles are
subjects such as: Principle 1 - If God is against it, so am I. Principle 7 –
Our sinful habits do hurt those who follow us and Principle 10 – God balances
guilt with blame.
This
book begins explaining in detail and with Biblical cross reference the inerrancies
with secular recovery models as well as explanation as to why a Christian
should not hold faith in them for recovery. The book then features a chapter on
each principle explaining how acknowledging each, applying it within your life
and trusting on Christ, you can be set free from addiction. The power behind
this book and these principles is its focus on truth, and that is the truth
that is in the word of God.
This
book is not solely for those addicted to alcohol or other substance abuse. It
focuses on any stronghold in a Christian’s life. Many followers of these
principles as well as members in the RU program are those who are addicted to
substance, pornography, gambling, shopping, have anger issues, lying issues,
hoarding and collecting issues and many other habit or stronghold forming
behavior.
The
beauty behind this book is its ability to find strongholds in your life that
you may not have even thought about. Many attendees of the program meetings and
readers of Curington’s works have not had substance abuse problems or may have
been attending in support of a friend or relative but have found in their own
lives stronghold in their lives that have crippled their relationship with God.
I
myself recommend this book to any and all that may have habits or addictions
inhibiting their relationship with Christ and problems within their families
and lives. I was burdened for many years with an alcohol addiction as well and
this book has helped me immensely with not only that issue but also with
discovering other strongholds in my life that where hindering my life as a
Christian. It would be hard, in my opinion, for any true confessing Christian
to read this book and not find something in their life that is a stronghold
before God.
I
highly recommend this book for those who suffer, those with family members that
suffer and for any Christian that wishes to develop a stronger relationship
with Christ.
Thank you for reading
In Christ, WH
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