The Shack
By William P. Young

Romans 8:28 says that “All things work together for good to those who love God.”  Hmmm?  Really?  Even really, incredibly, impossibly horrific things?  Like—your daughter getting kidnapped and brutally murdered while you are on a camping trip?  Are we really expected to believe that anything good could come out of that?  Are we really expected to love a God who would let something like that happen?

In The Shack, author William P. Young tells the story of a man whose pretty typical faith is tested by this kind of trial.  A man who feels his marriage begin to crumble and is helpless as his other children deal with the effects of losing their sister.  Then…he gets a note.  From God.  Inviting him to come back to the scene of the murder.  And what he meets there truly changes his life.

This book may challenge your assumptions about who and what God is—and how God is revealed through the Trinity.  It has created quite a stir.  Some suggest it is a modern-day Pilgrim’s Progress, while others say it is bad theology that is caught up in the new age, “feel good” movement that denies the truth of God’s righteous anger.

Read The Shack and find out for yourself what Mack learned about himself and the awesome mystery of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit when he went back to The Shack.

Submitted by Ann Smith