The Shack part 2

The more I think about The Shack (reviewed earlier this week), the more I'm disturbed by a lot of its theological message. It's presented in such a way that I missed some of the more controversial aspects. The book pretty much takes modern Christianity and throws it away, but it does so in such a way, you almost don't realize it because so much of what is presented is true. Some christians do desperately need to learn that their judgmental nature is the biggest turn off ever for unbelievers and even those who believe but choose not to be active in that belief. Some christians need to realize that living outside of the mainstream world flies in the face of everything Jesus stood for. Several people at my church are handing this book out to people everywhere they go. The people I'm talking about are amazingly strong believers who aren't the least but preachy, but they were touched deeply by the book, and want to share it with others. Maybe I'm making toomuch out of it. I mean, it is a book of fiction, but when I read it, it seemed like there was something else going on. One of the reasons I didn't like the book: It was extremely preachy. When I read inspirational fiction, I hate feeling like I've been smacked upside the head with the bible. But The Shack's bible smacking isn't the bible I know, and I think that might be worse.