I finished reading William Young’s, The Shack, yesterday. All I can say is, "Wow." This is one of those books that will make you laugh and cry and think really hard. We published a review and an interview on Next-Wave in October 2007, but I didn’t get around to getting a copy until about a week ago. Reading this book had a profound effect on me that I am going to be processing for some time to come. The insights it contains into the very nature of God are amazing. Beyond all of this, it is very well-written. I have no doubt that it is going to continue to have an amazing impact.
700 Club Interview:
I agree, a remarkable book. I wept about my own great sadness and about the surprising love of God – blended together in the same drops. I am frustrated by those who can’t see the book for what it is. On Youtube you said, “Too frequently people try to take one person’s wrestling with difficult thoughts and make them into something they aren’t. Driscoll did that here. Clearly the Holy Spirit is not a dove and God is not an old man. But to assert that we should not use word pictures to describe the undescribable is pitifully shallow, in my opinion. ” I couldn’t agree more! Thanks for posting!
I haven’t read it yet – I’m eager to though. I was a little surprised by Driscoll’s comments. Every other criticism of the book I could see coming simply based on the source, but I didn’t see that one coming from him. Having read it and enjoyed it – what did you think about his comments regarding the problem of hierarchy? The other two objections I just blow off, but I wonder what your position on that one is.
Peace.
It seems that God’s idea of hierarchy is different than man’s. A hierarchy of servanthood?