The Shack
People rave about this book, which immediately put me off reading it.
Mack finds God in a deserted shack in the middle of a wilderness. What God is doing there and what Mack learns is for us to find out.
Stranger things have happened. Disgraced politician Jonathan Aitken (in prison for perjury) claims to have found God in prison. At a party I was at in London, either Mark Thomas or Jeremy Hardy quipped what was God in for?
Missy, youngest daughter of Mack, goes missing on a camping trip. Her bloodstained dress is found in a dilapidated remote mountain shack. Her body is not found and she is assumed brutally murdered by a child serial killer. Four years later, Mack receives a note, allegedly from God, inviting him back to the shack for a weekend chat.
The last time God was on record sending messages is the communication of the Quran to the Prophet Muhmmad. Is this a cruel hoax? The only way for Mack to find out is to return to the shack.
The Shack by William P Young is an amazing and humbling deep metaphysical discussion on the nature of God. It will shatter most people’s stereotype image of God.
We know Jesus was a carpenter. Why are we therefore surprised to find him portrayed as of Middle Eastern appearance, looking like an Arab?
I find three copies of The Shack within three days, well a week at any rate. Each copy differed in a slight detail on its front cover, namely one, two, three million copies sold. A couple of weeks later I find another copy. Maybe someone is trying to tell me something!
Most recent copy I have seen displayed as best selling item in a Christian bookshop had seven million copies sold on the front cover!
With no publisher interested, with a little help from his friends, Willie created a publishing company with the sole purpose of publishing The Shack. Life is about following our dreams, taking risks. [see The Alchemist]
William P Young worked on odd jobs during the day to earn a living, at night he wrote The Shack. Not a single publisher was interested, “too much Jesus”, therefore with the help of friends and family he established a publishing company to publish The Shack. They thought they were being ambitious when they printed 11,000 copies to sell on the internet, but they sold out within four months, fuelled entirely by word-of-mouth. In the UK it was published by Hodder and Stoughton, where pre-sales reached 25,000 even before it hit the shops!
Word of mouth can be very powerful, especially with social media. I was recommended The Shack. I do not hesitate to recommend it to others.
Top story in The Religion Daily (Sunday 29 May 2011)!
– Finding God In The Shack
– Does it matter how we pray?
– What’s So Amazing About Grace?
– The Jesus I Never Knew
– Suffering
– The writer and God
– God is
– A six-year-old girl writes a letter to God
– The Alchemist
– By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
– Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Tags: books, Christianity, God, Jesus, religion, The Shack, William P Young
Keithpp's Blog 
September 16, 2011 at 5:38 pm |
Reading Love Wins, I found much of The Shack. Re-reading The Shack I have found much of Love Wins. I have also found much of Aleph.
Why? Probably because all three are drinking from the same well.
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September 16, 2011 at 6:41 pm |
I like this book very much. Actually I used a section to play out a skit in my Sunday school class, just to clear up some misunderstandings about the Trinity. I translated the section into Chinese, with minor modification: A Skit of Relating to the Trintarian God.
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