My Review of The Shack

The Shack is a heart-felt story of a man's personal experience with God. The main character goes through a horrible tragedy and the book goes on to tell the story about how God enters into relationship with Mack (the main character) and touches his heart.

I have had a great experience reading this book. I finished it last night. Looking back over the last week or so, each time I read the book I found myself desiring a deep intimacy. As I wrote that sentence I was reminded that the one who is reaching out and truly desiring intimacy with us is Jesus Himself. Of course, it is great that I desire intimacy with the Father, but it's not about me wanting it, it's about Him giving it. God desired(s) to have intimacy and relationship with us so much that he sent Jesus, his only son, to make it possible. God in the flesh.

I very much appreciate the story's way of describing the Trinity in perfect unity. None of the three parts of the Trinity acts, hears, or speaks without the other two knowing. They are one in three persons. God is so utterly different than us; but at the same time we are made in the image of Him! That is mind-blowing!

The Shack is a work of fiction and is not a doctrinal dissertation! The truth in this book is the relationship with God that was lost at the fall of man, and that the only way that relationship can be restored is through Christ. And the person(s) that go about expressing that relationship are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

I recommend this book to all of you, no matter where you are at in your walk with God. Whether you are Catholic, Pentecostal, Lutheran or Calvinist, or even an atheist, this story will move you. It will challenge the box that you have put God in and pull you closer to a relationship with Him.