Imagine what you would do and think if during your young life you had a brutal experience withan alcoholic father and, then, after your life seemed to come together with a compassionate and understanding spouse and five wonderful children, you experience the death of your youngest child because she is abducted and murdered by a serial killer.
What would your relationship be with God, initially and after this horrendous event? What kind of God would you think existed? How would you live the rest of your life? What would you think about the vagaries of life? Should they be controlled by God? Does God abandon us to our own devices? Just where would you be in all this? Also, where would God be?
Those are just a few of the questions that could be asked as you read The Shack. It is the story of Mackenzie Allen Phillips who has had a terrible childhood and left home at age thirteen. Mack does experience the death of his daughter. However, sometime afterward he meets the persons of the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit at the Shack where he initially realized his daughter had been killed.
Two small groups are meeting on a weekly basis to discuss this book. The discussion is being facilitated by the Mission Pastor, Ed Wolff, of Cross of Grace Lutheran Church. Although it has already begun, there is always room for more. We have only discussed a few of the opening chapters. The discussion is flexible and a new participant could readily join in the discussion.
Eugene Peterson, a well known theologian and author, says, “This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrim Progress did for his. It’s that good.”
If you would like to participate, call Ed Wolff at 423-833-8932. Please join us.
What would your relationship be with God, initially and after this horrendous event? What kind of God would you think existed? How would you live the rest of your life? What would you think about the vagaries of life? Should they be controlled by God? Does God abandon us to our own devices? Just where would you be in all this? Also, where would God be?
Those are just a few of the questions that could be asked as you read The Shack. It is the story of Mackenzie Allen Phillips who has had a terrible childhood and left home at age thirteen. Mack does experience the death of his daughter. However, sometime afterward he meets the persons of the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit at the Shack where he initially realized his daughter had been killed.
Two small groups are meeting on a weekly basis to discuss this book. The discussion is being facilitated by the Mission Pastor, Ed Wolff, of Cross of Grace Lutheran Church. Although it has already begun, there is always room for more. We have only discussed a few of the opening chapters. The discussion is flexible and a new participant could readily join in the discussion.
Eugene Peterson, a well known theologian and author, says, “This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrim Progress did for his. It’s that good.”
If you would like to participate, call Ed Wolff at 423-833-8932. Please join us.
