The Cure by Harry Kraus (Review)
Some of my sponsors are coming after me because of delayed book reviews. Not really, but this one should have appeared 2 or 3 weeks ago. Fortunately, I’m not totally to blame.
I started talking about The Cure after I finished it, and my brother Johnny asked to borrow it. He was so impressed with what he read that he passed it on to my dad, who held onto it long enough to mine it for quotable quotations and incorporate it in several sermons (I’m just guessing here).
Long story short, this book was so valuable that I couldn’t hold on to it long enough to review it.
What Harry Kraus sets out to do is diagnose the significant spiritual problems that are beating the pulp out of the North American church, and then offer a profoundly simple solution. The subtitle of The Cure is The Divine Rx for the Body of Christ - Life-Changing Love.
What makes this book come alive is the fact that Kraus uses decades of work as a physician to describe how the “body of Christ” should be animated by a single controlling impulse, Love. He deals with topics like “spiritual anorexia” and OCD—but his prescriptions go beyond mere exhortation. Writing on a topic like “love” and adding to the piles of volumes already written is a difficult accomplishment, but Kraus pulls it off.
I highly recommend The Cure, both to counselors and to anyone wanting to streamline and revive their spiritual life. This is a liberating and clarifying book.
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