Meet me at the Shack!

A couple years back a very challenging book came out, “The Shack”.  It had the Christian community up in arms against each other.  Some loved it and promoted it while others marked it heretical.  While I don’t think it has been canonized, (determined to be the “word of God”) it does contain some conversation starting theology that is comfortable for Christians and non-Christians to sit side by side in conversation over.

Tomorrow night we begin a 5 week look at the book, “The Shack” by William P. Young.  We will meet at 6:30 PM and go until 8:00 PM at my house.  (Some of the members of my previous congregation, Geneseo UMC may remember this as a very challenging, exciting, and enjoyable study)

In this work of fiction, a man is invited to spend a weekend with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. His notions of the Trinity and his preconceptions about religion and Christianity are challenged, and he begins the process of healing several traumatic emo­tional wounds he has sustained in his life.

Here is an excerpt from a review written by Cindy Crosby on July 10, 2008 that was printed in Christianity Today.

Call it the little book that could. William P. Young’s The Shack, a 256-page self-published novel that was turned down by several Christian publishing houses (ostensibly for being too theologically edgy) is finding a grassroots audience that just keeps growing. Seldom has there been such a buzz about religious fiction.