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    This sermon discusses the popular book "The Shack" and addresses some of the theological issues it raises. It notes the book's phenomenal commercial success despite being self-published with minimal marketing. The sermon aims to provide a case study of the book by describing its author William Paul Young and the story, including both positive and negative Christian reactions. It acknowledges that many have found the book uplifting but also identifies what it sees as "distinctly negative" and "downright false/heretical" teachings contained within. The sermon concludes by considering how Christians should respond to books like "The Shack" and similar works that promote questionable theology.

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    This sermon discusses the popular book "The Shack" and addresses some of the theological issues it raises. It notes the book's phenomenal commercial success despite being self-published with minimal marketing. The sermon aims to provide a case study of the book by describing its author William Paul Young and the story, including both positive and negative Christian reactions. It acknowledges that many have found the book uplifting but also identifies what it sees as "distinctly negative" and "downright false/heretical" teachings contained within. The sermon concludes by considering how Christians should respond to books like "The Shack" and similar works that promote questionable theology.

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    This sermon discusses the popular book "The Shack" and addresses some of the theological issues it raises. It notes the book's phenomenal commercial success despite being self-published with minimal marketing. The sermon aims to provide a case study of the book by describing its author William Paul Young and the story, including both positive and negative Christian reactions. It acknowledges that many have found the book uplifting but also identifies what it sees as "distinctly negative" and "downright false/heretical" teachings contained within. The sermon concludes by considering how Christians should respond to books like "The Shack" and similar works that promote questionable theology.

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    Sermon @22May2011

    SOUNG TEACHING/DOCTRINE
    1.

    Do the Survey: 25 Questions in 5 minutes

    2.

    Pass out the Marking Sheet

    3.

    Go through 30+ verses on FALSE TEACHINGS /


    TEACHERS

    4.

    Charles Spurgeon: Discernment is not so much about


    differentiating the right from the wrong (thats easy
    /simple), but it is the God-given ability to differentiate the
    right from the ALMOST-RIGHT
    I am NOT worry about open, overt, frontal attacks, but I
    am weary of subtle, surreptitious teachings/ideas that
    undermine the truth

    5.

    Instead of a didactic (instructive; especially excessively)


    teaching, I shall use the Case Study method this morning

    6.

    Describe how The Shack (by William Paul Young)


    rocks the Christian community:

    Its success is phenomenal


    Written by an unknown author
    Distributed by an unknown publisher
    Who spent less than US$300 in marketing
    The Shack has sold more than 10 millions copies
    And is about to be made into a movie!!

    - New York Times: No. 1 for months


    - World Market: No. 1 for how long?
    - Do I have your attention now
    -

    7.

    Describe the author William Paul Young and the story of


    The Shack:
    - William Paul Young, Paul to his friends, describes
    himself as an office manager, janitor, and hotel night
    clerk in Gresham, Oregon. That sounds pretty
    normal, but his upbringing was anything but normal.
    The child of missionaries, Young was raised in West
    Papua (now Indonesia) among the Dani tribe.
    Frederick Buechner states that at its heart, most
    theology, like fiction, is essentially autobiography. The
    same can be said about The Shack, a work of fiction
    with a theology. Its main character, Mack, is essentially
    Young, and the events of one weekend in Macks life
    reflect the experiences of Youngs life over the course of
    eleven years. Young wrote the novel for his family as a
    gift. The Shack, then, is an unusually intimate baring
    of the authors soul in the form of a novel.
    - Describe Youngs life, from West Papua to adulthood.

    - Describe the Story of Mack and Missy

    - Pictures of Papa as Oracle in The Matrix?

    Gloria Foster as Oracle in Matrix 1 & 2

    Mary Alice as Oracle in The Matrix 3 & 4

    Some say Papa is more like Queen Latifah


    - Picture of night scene in Avatar?

    - The POSITIVE comments by Christian Leaders


    (i)
    Dr Eugene Peterson
    (ii)
    Dr Roger Olson (iii)
    Dr Randal Rauser(iv)
    Gary and Cathy Deddo -

    - The NEGATIVE comments by Christian Leaders


    (i)
    Dr James De Young
    (ii)
    Dr Michael Youssef
    (iii)
    Dr Norman Geisler
    (iv)
    Timothy Challies
    (v)

    8.

    Describe the POSITIVE aspects of the story:

    9.

    Notwithstanding the Positive, there are distinctly


    NEGATIVE aspects of the story; in fact there are
    downright false/heretical teachings in the book:

    - I must emphasize that I have tremendously enjoyed


    reading the book; in fact was thoroughly encouraged
    by its portrayal of God the Father, Jesus the Son and
    the Holy Spirit
    - This is one book that Yoke Kum has finished way
    before me
    - Yet as much as I have cried over it, have my spirit
    lifted high and been brought to my knees at the same
    time, I have the gnawing sense that something is not
    quite right.. and I remember what Charles Spurgeon
    has said:
    - As so here they are, the false teachings:
    (i)
    (ii)
    (iii)
    (iv)
    (v)
    (vi)
    (vii)
    (viii)
    (ix)
    (x)

    10.

    What do we do with a book like The Shack and a


    person like William Paul Young?
    (i)
    (ii)

    11.

    If you have NOT read


    If you HAD read

    What do we do with other similar books?


    (i)
    (ii)
    (iii)
    (iv)

    Emergent books such as McClarens books on


    A New Kind of Christianity etc?
    Love Wins by ..?
    Blue Like Jazz by?
    If Grace Is True by .?

    12. Conclusion

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