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The New York Times<\/em> best seller Christian fiction, The Shack<\/em>, is enjoying the endorsements and ravings of top Christian figures. Contemporary Christian singer Michael W. Smith says:<\/p>\n

The Shack<\/em> is the most absorbing work of fiction I’ve read in many years. My wife and I laughed, cried and repented of our own lack of faith along the way. The Shack<\/em> will leave you craving for the presence of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wynonna Judd, another popular recording artist states: “Reading The Shack<\/em> during a very difficult transition in my life, this story has blown the door wide open to my soul.”<\/p>\n

Judd and Smith aren’t alone in their promotion of The Shack<\/em>. Eugene Peterson (author of The Message<\/em>) says: “This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress did for his. It’s that good!” And Calvary Chapel speaker and teacher Gayle Erwin expresses:<\/p>\n

Riveting, with twists that defy your expectations while teaching powerful theological lessons without patronizing. I was crying by page 100. You cannot read it without your heart becoming involved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The list of endorsements by Christian figures goes on and on. The book has remained on the New York Times<\/em> best seller list for 25 consecutive weeks now. But in spite of the heart-warming emotion that The Shack <\/em>stirs within people, Lighthouse Trails believes this is a theologically off-base novel that has an underlying sensual New Age message, appealing to the “carnal” flesh rather than “the things of the Spirit.<\/p>\n

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (Romans 8:5,6)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For research and articles on The Shack<\/em>, from a biblical point of view, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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