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.
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
To be honest, I don't necessarily even group things based on like or dislike, but based on if I found them stretching or thought provoking. I often read things that I vehemently disagree with (often on this forum! lol), and yet they make me think, and question and learn.
I am currently reading a book called "Not a Religious Person" about a former atheist. I am particularly enjoying it, not because it is making me think, but because it mirrors things that I have already independently thought.
To be honest, I don't necessarily even group things based on like or dislike, but based on if I found them stretching or thought provoking. I often read things that I vehemently disagree with (often on this forum! lol), and yet they make me think, and question and learn.
I am currently reading a book called "Not a Religious Person" about a former atheist. I am particularly enjoying it, not because it is making me think, but because it mirrors things that I have already independently thought.
I'm reading one of those right now!
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I'm starting to read Faith Undone the emerging church...a new reformation or and endtime deception. By RogerOakland
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Starting reading this one tonight-
The Ezekiel Option by Joel C Rosenberg
Other books waiting from the latest trip to the library:
Grave Risk by Hannah Alexander
Last Resort by Hannah Alexander
Fair Warning by Hannah Alexander
Cheap Talk with the Frugal Friends by Angie Zalewski and Deana Ricks
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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