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The Shack

	The Shack Windblown Media, 2008 average customer review:based on 1592 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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The Shack

Excellent book - we read it as church group and discussed during a Bible Study session. Created very lively conversation. Reaffirmed for me that God gives us "free will" and wants us to freely give it back to Him. Also, we can never be truly free if we hold onto our "Great Sadness". Their is a lot of freedom in forgiveness.

Great finish to the book, did not expect that.

We All Need A Weekend Away in The Shack

I really loved this book. I ordered it from Amazon and then set it aside to read at a later date. In the meantime, my wife picked it up and read it in a couple of hours. She was enthusiastic in her recommendation and that was good enough for me, so I got right on it.

I had heard a lot of negative talk about this book from pastors and nationally known Christian leaders. When those folks start telling people to avoid reading something, that usually raises my curiosity enough to make me want to read it.

There are lots of other things in this book that are offensive to the religious mind. I have to admit, the book set off my religious alarms. But after some prayer and contemplation, I realized that the things I had a problem with were probably not things that God was offended by. Characters in the book use profanity on rare occasion. The necessity of spiritual authority is questioned. Religious Institutions are exposed as being the white washed tombs that they truly are.

One thing is for certain. The author of this book set out to push every religious button the reader has. He will challenge your assumptions and make you seek out real answers to age-old beliefs that you've never questioned. Most of us would rather just believe whatever we were taught growing up, but that isn't true faith. Real faith comes from experiencing Jesus Christ on a daily basis and looking for opportunities for His kingdom to come in and through our lives to transform our families and communities.

It's important that readers remember that The Shack is a work of FICTION. Critics would do well to remember that this book was not written to be a theological treatise. It is a parable of hope and transformation. We shouldn't go to fiction books for our doctrine, but to be inspired toward a life of knowing God in a deeper way. I wish that the critics who are so upset about the theology presented in this book would have been so particular when the Left Behind novels were published. The theology presented in those books was absolute nonsense and rarely did we hear a peep out of the theological giants among us.

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Best Book Ever

This is the best book I have ever read. Makes you want your weekend too. Will change you life for the best. I have read many life changing books but this one will help you get that feeling of fullness that only time alone with the Lord can give you. If you are looking for some peace, or just a renewing this is the book for your. Be prepared to never be the same.

The Shack

While reading The Shack, I began to wonder if I would like the ending. With one reservation, I did. I found the shack as symbolic of the best and the worst that life has to offer. Potential readers who pick this book up should take the time to read it and find out why.
I won't spoil the story with too many details, but the one thing that made it less than a perfect book is something that others might see as making it a perfect book. I feel that Young spent too much time in the shack discussing the reality and acceptance of God. I would have liked to see Mack have an earlier return to his family and more details on how he and his family came to terms with loss and new-found faith. In that light, I wanted more of how his daughter, Kate, dealt with her perceived guilt.
That said, when the story opens as "Papa" (God) writes a note to meet Mack at the shack, I had my reservations. What Young did well was to draw us into believing God was really there in that shack. It was nothing short of brilliant.

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