What are you reading currently?

[crakjak]

Originally Posted by Margies3

Crakjak, did you like "The Shack"? I can't say that I did. It was the kind of book I couldn't stop reading, but not because I enjoyed it and certainly not because I agreed with it. Our pastor is telling everyone to avoid it like the plague. My Emmaus Share Group, however, has all loved the book.

I'd be interested in your perspective on it.

The Shack is one of the most difficult books that I have ever read.

I find The Shack incredibly deep, dealing with issues that plague so many believers and non-believers today. It can easily be discredited as being theologically unfaithful, I believe it is unwaveringly faithful to scripture. It must be understood to be a story that reveals deep understanding about God that many will completely miss. It is fiction, yet it reveals such truths about man and God.

"Why does God allow evil to succeed?" I don't know that "The Shack" answers this question, but it certainly raises this question.


The author has been healed of such deep woundedness inflicted by those that should have been his protector. Though it is not his actual life story, he is sharing his path to recovery and wholeness.

In short, I believe the author to be anointed of the Spirit, he could not have written with such depth otherwise.

You asked my opinion, and I present this post as exactly that.