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2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Impossible Possibility!, 2008-06-07
Anyone with any kind of hurt, pain, disappointment in life and/or with God needs to read this book! The clarity of this book in speaking to the journey we all share as humans seeking to know God, and answering life's toughest questions is stunning. This book challenges me to lay down my simplistic instituitonal thinking and embrace God more intimately. This book is for me straight out of the heart of God for each of us, and calls me/us as believers in Him, up higher. This book opens our understanding of God in real ways in the same manner Frank Paretti's books (This Present Darkness & Piercing the Darkness)opened our eyes twenty years ago. Buy bunches of these and give 'em to everybody you know, I know I will!!
4 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
A Journey Into Love, 2008-06-07
When reading The Shack, be prepared some laughs and smiles, but mostly, be prepared for a well of tears. I'm a movie and book crier by nature. I'll admit that my wife and daughter give me the raised eyebrow and look at me strangely when I choke up while watching a sitcom and all I can do is sheepishly say, "Did you see how she helped that lady" or something like that. Well, be warned, if you also have a weakness for tears or if you are a father, the tears will hit you like a flood.
This book is a story of God sharing his heart with a broken man. The first section of the book will hit you in the chest, as it describes what the author calls "The Great Sadness" of the novels protagonist.
I'm a lover of well written novels and it was well over a decade ago that I decided there were way too many books being published every year, not to mention the thousands and thousands of good books previously written, to spend time reading a poorly written one. This book is an exception to that rule. It isn't the writing that kept me going, it was the content.
I don't know the authors story, but the jacket says that "he suffered a great loss as a child and young adult". The best books are those written about what an author knows - either researched or experienced. This is what you will find in The Shack. The author has wrapped a story around what he feels passionate about.
I won't give away the story or the message, but I will say that is resonated strongly with me. At the core it is about God's unfailing love for his children. His desire to draw every one of his children to him. How this love transcends our hurts and tragedies. How he ususes even the worst situations as avenues of redemption.
I didn't read The Shack with my theologian hat on. I didn't critique every line to evaluate how it stood up to my interpretation of systematic or historical theology. This is not a book of theology - I read it as a man sharing his heart and what he has learned on his journey - putting it in a fictional format.
It is his journey and heart that resonated with me.
Read The Shack - not for its literary prowness or theological intellectualism - but to be moved and challenged in your thinking of God.
I'll end with a brief sample to taste your appetite. This is Jesus conversing with the main character, Mack;
"Our is earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide and direct her." As Jesus spoke, his voice intensified in subdued anguish. "Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration other then their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders or blows her breath, they are offended and raise their fist at God."
"This blue-green ball in black space, filled with beauty even now, battered and abused and lovely."
"I know that song. You must care deeply about the Creation," smiled Mack.
"Well, this blue-green ball in space belongs to me," Jesus stated emphatically."
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
The Shack, 2008-06-07
Even though The Shack is a novel, it has given me "food for thought" regarding my relationship with the three persons of the trinity. It has revolutionalized my life.
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Excellent , Thought-provoking book!, 2008-06-07
I had heard that this book was controversial when I bought it. I don't know what I was expecting but what I got was a wonderful portrayal of the Trinity as personified by the author. The author gave a very Biblical and thought-provoking look at unbearable tragedy and misfortune in our lives. This book did truly make me think again about the awful things that happen to us during our lives and the part that God plays in our tragedy.
What a wonderful book., 2008-06-07
The Shack answers life's most troubling questions. Why do bad things happen to good people? If God gets the credit why doesn't he get the blame? If God forgives me why can't I forgive myself?
This is deep and rich and wonderful.
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