The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by William P. Young Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
Book Review: "The Shack" rocks
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is amazing. It will change your faith forever. This is the perfect book to give to someone going through a rough time.Book Review: "The Shack" was thought provoking
Summary: 4 Stars
Would be a great read for anyone (most of us) who have some event in life that makes it impossible to go on. A real lesson in letting go and letting GOD.Book Review: "The Shack", a breath of fresh air in the world of Christian fiction.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was someone who hadn't read fiction for many years. When a friend read some lines to me from The Shack by William P. Young I went out and bought it. This book searches Mackenzie Phillips relationship, or lack of it, with God after his young daughter is killed by a serial killer. Years later a note in his mailbox invites him to meet with God at the very place where his daughter was killed. There at the worst place and time in his life Mack comes face to face with a God He really didn't know.
The Shack's unorthodoxed look at an extreemly non-religious God shook up my own view of God and made me look deeper into who God really is and what he wants from me. I found a God of love who wants nothing more than to spend time with us. I saw a Father, Son and Spirit who serve each other with much love and respect. Their interest is in having a very
personal relationship with us.
What did reading The Shack do for me? It increased the quality of my relationship with God and with my husband. If you will allow it to it can at the least change the way you envision God and at the most change
your relationship with Him to a more personal one. I highly recommend
this book for anyone to read.
Book Review: "The Way" According to "The Shack"
Summary: 1 Stars
On page 110, "Jesus" makes a statement that is nothing short of heresy. He says, "I am the best way any human can relate to Papa (God the Father) or Sarayu (The Holy Spirit)." What? Jesus says he is the "best" way to God, thereby implying that there are other ways. Such a statement as this is by itself enough to relegate this book to the trash can. The real Jesus of the Bible would never have said such a thing. Instead, He said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me" (John 16:6, NASB). Notice the use of the word "the" instead of "a" or "the best." Reducing Jesus to "a" way to God or "the best" way to God robs Him of His deity, His glory, and the value of His redemptive work.
The real Jesus also said, "...unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins" (John 8:24, NASB). There is no wiggle room in that statement. Jesus did not give people freedom to "sort of" believe in Him but to also make their own way. He is the way. He is the only way. It doesn't make any difference what anyone thinks or feels about it. If a person believes he can get to God in any other way besides through the Lord Jesus Christ, he is very badly fooled. This truth is further underscored in the Book of Acts. "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12, NASB).
Book Review: "Truth Nuggets"
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm very glad I read this book.
There are many good "truth nuggets" that I will probably go back and re-read, perhaps even highlight.
I think this book affects each person differently based upon happenings in her life and where she is at this point in her life. I found reading this slow for me -- not because of the writing or the story -- but because of the depth of information I was finding. I couldn't take in too much at any one time.
In the latter part of the book -- don't worry, no spoilers -- I found myself reading a few pages and crying a lot. Not happy tears, but not bad tears either. The kind that wet your whole face. Then I'd have to put the book up until the next night because I didn't feel I could emotionally take anymore, or needed to think of this nightly truth nugget, or was just too tired to go on.
As for any controversy, I chose not to read the details before I read this book and still haven't, I don't find any unless people have a problem with the way the Trinity is presented.
If you don't want to read it, or you don't think it appropriate, remember in the forward the writer says then it isn't for you.