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Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
A book for salvation? 
Many are seeking an answer, many are seeking a way. An answer and a way to salvation. No, this book does not offer either of these, but what it offer is a way to come close to your maker and the creator of the universe.
Yes, there are discrepancies between the scriptures and the writings in these pages. However, what it does offer is more than most modern writings can offer, a chance to view our Holy Creator without the shackles of religion. In a matter of fact, questions have arisen in my own mind about the writings and my own personal upbringing and learnings of God.
As this book pertains to me, it has done more to draw me closer to my Creator, my God, my Jesus, than any writing has done up until this point.
I regularly read the Chronicles of Narnia to gain inspiration as well as JRR Tolkien's Trilogy. Repeatedly, both have help me uncover new meanings and answers in my own life as accordance with scripture, and both leave me uplifted. However, both of these works rarely bring me to a closer relationship with God. The Shack accomplishes this in a short story.
It took nearly a week to read through the roughly 249 pages in this book. Not that it is a difficult read, but I needed time to search my own soul as I read through the pages. This writing dragged me through the most tumultuous times of my own life as well as the hero's, and helped me to find a new relationship with God, the Creator, as no work has ever done before.
This work has helped me to create a new relationship with my God, my Creator. I am born again, time and time over (almost every time I speak to God) but after this book, I felt born anew. I seem to understand not only God, but the relationship between Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God, and myself. I understand more about my relationship with the Holy Trinity now than I ever did before.
Not only did this book change my ongoing relationship with God, but every relationship that I encounter. My hope is that this book will do the same for my loved ones as it did for me.
As I believe that the works of John Bunyan, JRR Tolkien, and CS Lewis were inspired by the Holy Spirit, I believe that this work by Wm. Young is also inspired by the Creator as well.
It is worth a read by every hungry spirit.
Gives you much to ponder 
I started this book a bit leery; generally speaking I'm not impressed by Christian fiction and often Christian non-fiction puts me to sleep. This wasn't the the best technically written book but once I got past the chapters that set up the meeting at the shack, I found it insightful and often profound. At times it was too much to take in and comprehend. I can't say I buy everything hook, line and sinker but it goes a long way to explaining things that I have accepted but never grasped. I actually got this book at the library but now I want to buy it because there are many thoughts and ideas that I want to take time to think about. The author takes on some pretty tough concepts from the Bible and was able to present them in a way that brought clarity (for me anyway).
It is definitely worth reading!
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