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 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1238 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Life-changing September 3, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
So many people kept telling me how great this book was, but I put off reading it because I'd heard that before. But this book is truly incredible. Though it's not a true story, it's based off of Paul's conversations and actual experiences with God...which are eye opening, paradigm shifting, and yet incredibly simple. I understood God's love for me in a much more tangible way after reading this...it really changed me.
 Apparently Hitting Deep Need but Poor Fiction September 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mack is an average Sunday Christian who never develops any kind of spiritual life. When great pain enters his life, he discovers that his shallow Christianity does not hold up. He is invited to the place of his pain by a God that gives him the huge hugs and affirmations he longs for.
The first few chapters is poor fiction where the author sets up the story wastes our time giving us random facts and events that do little to develop his characters. The part describing the murder took me in because here the author is writing out of his pain and it feels much more real and direct as if the author was describing his own pain.
The rest of the book takes on the genre of "person who gets it"/"person who doesn't get it" conversation not unlike Brian McClaran's "A New Kind of Christian".
I kind of got board with it finding some of Papa's heady arguments not profound but rather lame. It is truly fiction with an agenda of making specific theological points as if Young was the teacher, the characters were flannel-graphs and we are the students.
The best question to ask while reading the book is "why is it meeting such a need" and what can we do to better reach the hurts and pains of people. Has our theology become so dry that we have to invent completely new metaphores to convey a God who cares?
As implied by the book, the church can grow in the area of reaching true hurt but also folks like Mack should get off of their pew and develop a spiritual life in community before they discover that their brand of Christianity will not hold up in trial.
My Comment on the Negative Reiews September 3, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
You know what's funny? It's the negative reviews with one star that makes me one to read the book, more than the postive ones. Lol. :) This reminds me of Master Oogway's words: "Sometimes one meets one's destiny on the road to avoid it" from the movie Kung Fu Panda. Lol. :) No matter how many fundamentalists dislike the book, this book will reach millions of people and transforms the lives of millions of Christians and non-Christians alike, especially those in the middle ground. No, I have not read the book yet. But judging from the negative reviews, I understand why the book is so good.
The Shack September 3, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can't begin to tell you how awesome this book was. What an imagination William Young has. He clearly has an intimate relationship with our Lord. He has put into words what I have only wondered and now understand how Papa God feels about me. He is especially fond of me!!!!
A great book that stays with you. September 3, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of those books that stays with you ~ if you feel drawn to read it... listen to that voice, I feel blessed that I did! Thank you Wm. Paul Young!
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