I recognize the Holy Spirit speaking to me, didn’t happen at all while reading that book. It was an OK storyline, but it is fiction. I was alarmed that the level of true spirituality is so lacking in our society, that so many found this book to be helpful. Perhaps we are all on different journeys and this speaks to some, it didn’t speak at all to me.
You’re certainly not suggesting that if the Holy Spirit didn’t speak to you through the book that it is uninspired are you?
Chuck Colson (the author of the article) tells of seeing a truck with the acronym G.O.D. (for guaranteed overnight delivery) when he was searching for answers during watergate. You can’t really mean that if you don’t get the message he got looking at that truck that the Holy Spirit cannot indwell those three simple letters at just the right moment for just the right person, can you?
In fact, if Colson would have remembered his own story,I doubt he would have written with quite the judgmental certainty that he did about The Shack.
Personally I’m alarmed at the high level of religiosity that causes people to reject any tool that doesn’t work for them, personally. Six billion people- there just might be more than one effective approach for the Holy spirit to employ.
What percentage of doctrinal accuracy would you ascribe to G.O.D. on the side of a truck.
Perhaps we’re on the SAME journey, and this speaks to some even though it didn’t speak to you. I hope we are- I’m on the journey to be transformed into the image of Christ, toward perfection. You?
Will