The book, The Shack, was purchased for our study group. Newsweek had referred to it as rather 'hokey'. We found the book a very stimulating source for discussion. We have now spent 3 sessions on the book and are only on chapter 9. I would recommend it for anyone who wishes to think about their lives with an open mind.
I LOVED IT!!
I am lost for words on this book. I talk about it everyday to everybody I meet. I wish that everyone could read it.
I did have a few questions but overall I LOVED IT!!!!!
I hope it becomes a movie!
I loved this book! I really hope it becomes a movie in the near future!
I think The Shack is a beautiful book. Honestly I just can't understand why there is any controversy over it at all. Personally I enjoyed Young's writing style and I think he did an excellent job of portraying a deeply emotional story. I quite literally laughed and cried throughout different parts of the book.
Theologically speaking I found The Shack to be spot-on. The book deals with intense spiritual truths and expresses them in a way that anyone can understand. I really think The Shack contains a much needed message for our world today and I didn't find a single thing to disagree with.
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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