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I think the success of *The Shack* shows us the power of narrative to engage and to teach. We need more books like *The Shack* - just with better theology…
Great thoughts, Nicole. Thanks.
But why were they not published before I spent yesterday speaking on this, from the book of Esther?!
Thank you, Nicole, for getting at the reason Evangelicals are making worthless books like The Shack into bestsellers. The sad truth is that many so-called Evangelicals are idolaters, who prefer a god of their own making to the triune God of the Bible, who made us, and will remake us, if we trust in him alone. At the heart of idolatry is confusing the Creator and creation. The creation is devoid of God’s life-giving Spirit. If we worship worthless idols, and The Shack reinvents God according to its author’s imagination, we will become worthless—- as spiritually deaf and dumb as the idols we make. As G. K. Beale writes in his truly worthwhile book, “We Become What We Worship,” “We resemble what we revere, either for ruin or restoration.”
Thank you Nicole
Excellent article. I have had such a heavy heart over “the Shack” nearly every church and leader is my area of Wales has been endorsing it, and those (who are very very few) who attempt to show that ‘Papa’ et al in The Shack is NOT the Triune God found in the Scriptures, are considered ‘out of touch’ or ‘into dull doctrine’ etc.
Its a painful time! Such an encouragement to see articles which use the Bible as the starting point,to inform and conform our thinking. Gods own Words with which to understand God.
Thanks for your thoughts on ‘The Shack’. I’m pleased to see this discussion taking place. It seemed for a long time the book was flying under our radar, whilst all the while flying off the shelves. “Self-shaped god” - well put. You can check out my thoughts at Sydney Anglicans http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/culture/reading/the_shack/
Lisa
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