‘The Shack’ Author Insists Bestseller ‘is a God Thing’

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LTRP Note: The following article by the Christian Post is for research and information purposes. Lighthouse Trails believes The Shack is a highly deceptive book, and contrary to what the author states below is not a “God thing.” In fact, we believe this book is another stepping stone to lead Christians away from the truth of the Gospel and a path that will lead unbelievers away from salvation through Jesus Christ. Below this article, please refer to our research on The Shack.

Postscript: The Christian Post has been a major media outlet to promote Purpose Driven Life, contemplative spirituality, and the emerging church.

By Eric Young
Christian Post Reporter

Despite what critics have said about his highly popular and hotly debated best-seller, The Shack, author William Paul Young remains convinced that his book “is a God thing.”

“I absolutely am convinced that this is a God-thing that God is the One stirring this all up, challenging us to rethink and entertain growing deeper in a relationship with Him rather than pursuing our independence,” Young said during a live chat with book lovers last week.

Though Young had not originally intended the novel to be for public consumption, since its debut on the market last year, The Shack has reaped in a surprising amount of success, generating a large amount of buzz – both positive and negative – within Christian circles.

“This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress did for his,” stated Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus Of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, in a published endorsement for the book. “It’s that good!” …

“Al [Moher, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.] tried to get the book banned but was unsuccessful because the theologians of his denomination (the Southern Baptist Convention) ‘could find nothing unorthodox in The Shack that would warrant it being removed or banned,'” Young reported last Wednesday….

Over one million copies of The Shack have been sold since it was published in May 2007. It has maintained its status as the No. 1 Paperback trade fiction seller on the New York Times best sellers list since June 2008. Click here to read this entire news article.

LTRP Research on The Shack, click here.

 

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