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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $8.24
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Rating:  1271 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: first
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B001B8Z2S0
Publication Date: June 20, 2008
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Product Description
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
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 Disappointed September 8, 2008
Based on the popularity of this book, I was expecting some profound insights about suffering and forgiveness. I found the book to be very dull, and it was a tedious chore to finish it. It had nothing new to say about anything. I don't understand why anyone would find it "life changing."
 Amazing look into every individual's everyday issues. September 8, 2008
I was amazed to read how Young hit every issue my husband and I have struggled with. Forgiveness, trust, faith...the list goes on. But not in a 'self-help' type way. Using fiction to hit strong points is brilliant! It is a book for everyone because everyone deals with those issues in one way or another. Being a Christian myself, this book reminded me that all things are possible through God the Father! Amazing book- couldn't put it down!
 Tear down the shack and build your house upon "The Rock" September 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If this book was just a story, I would not be offering any comments. However, because it attempts to incorporate biblical concepts, and because these concepts are influencing people's ideas of God, I consider this book to be very divisive, destructive and offensive to several basic Christian principles. The thought that so many Christians do not understand the danger of this is even more disturbing to me and to many other Christians. If you have a positive attitude regarding this book, Wake Up and stop being deceived!!!!!!!!!!!!
The theology in this book is so twisted. It is also appalling to me that Christians are accepting this story with such approval. The fact that Greg Albrecht, Editor of Plain Truth Magazine and Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C. author of The Message both approve of this book will now force me to question "The Message" every time I encounter it. Any Christian who finds any value in this book would probably find value and spiritual hope in books such as The Exorcist and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Christians need to stop falling away from the true teachings that are found in the bible in order to get a feel good, Hallmark, emotional experience. Read Hard to Believe by John MacArthur if you really want to grow closer to God. Or better yet, just read the bible.
I know that my review is in the minority but Christians need to wake up and start being Christians again before it's too late!!!! When the author writes on page 236, "without any ritual, without ceremony, they savored the warm bread and shared the wine and laughed," I could not believe how "sacrilegious" this author could possibly be. Consider what it says in 1 Corinthians 11:27-29
Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.
Many people reply to negative reviews with sentimental comments that encourage more open mindedness. The acceptance of truths that are contrary to the bible can not possibly lead a person closer to God because that would make God out to be a liar. Avoid this book except to be informed of the ways in which people are falling farther and farther from the truth every day.
A thoughtful question provoker September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Readers of this book will most likely be moved emotionally and ask themselves the unanserable as will readers of Michelle CozzensIt's Not Your Mother's Bridge Club
 Three stars because it depends... September 7, 2008
If you are a person who would be shocked at the notion that God the Father could represent "himself" as a big black woman, this book may be instructive and inspiring--or offensive--to you. I can see why many who have grown up in religious environments that emphasize narrow judgment and tribalism over a more loving/respectful stance toward all creation might either love or hate this book.
If, on the other hand, you are a person who already accepts God as all-wise, all-knowing, omnipotent, omnipresent, and infinite; who does not have the pride of your typical hellfire-damnation preacher or fundamentalist; who sees the mysterious hand of the deity in all things we humans judge to be "good" or "bad"; who understands that no human being can really KNOW (at the level of words and descriptions, at any rate) who/what God is...well, then this book is both deep and lacks depth. Kind of a "carry water, chop wood."
As I was reading, a few things jumped out at me as very significant, but nothing stayed with me very long. I have to say that I imagined Jesus as one of the Geiko Neanderthals, and that was actually quite an enlightening and happy picture! I do think it was good on the author's part that he left it up in the air as to whether "it really happened" or not. A bump on the head can certainly shake up one's brain and ways of thinking about things....
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