William P. Young's best selling book THE SHACK is considered by many Biblical ministries to contain New Age, pagan and even occult false teaching. Blatant heresy and false teaching of any kind should never be permitted in any Christian Church [or Christian bookstore] regardless of whether or not it is fiction.
As a result of this tragic acceptance in many circles, we have created this web page in order to expose The Shack's false teachings.
Please note carfeully that all of the authors and reviews listed below write from the viewpoint of historic, classical, Biblical orthodoxy. In other words, sound biblical teaching which the Church has taught for the past 2000 years and which cannot be compromised, lest spiritual deceit would have free reign through the Church.
It is the responsibility of Pastors, Teachers and Church Elders, to not only nurture and feed God's flock, but to expose heresy, aberrant teachings, false teachers and false prophets - in order to faithfully and lovingly WARN God's flock. Those that fail to do so not only disqualify themselves from serving in a position of biblical Eldership and leadership, but they end up lead others astray!
"Jesus... said to them: 'Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many." Matthew 24:4-5
QUOTES FROM THE SHACK:
"This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' did for his. It's that good!"
-----Eugene Peterson, author of The Message (Front cover endorsement)
"God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things....” [panentheism]
-----The Shack's "Jesus." [1,p.112]
"Those who love me come from every system that exists. They were Buddhists or Mormons, Baptists or Muslims.... I have no desire to make them Christian, but I do want to join them in their transformation into sons and daughters of my Papa, into my brothers and sisters.”
-----The Shack's "Jesus." [1,p.182]
"The esoteric spiritual traditions -- whether Christian mystics, Hebrew Kabbalists, Zen Buddhists, Islamic Sufis, or Hindu yogis -- all have specific practices to help individuals overcome this great 'illusion of separation' and to experience the One True Self, which is in us all." [2,p.149]
-----A Course in Miracles, as "dictated" to channeler Helen Schucman in 1977 by her spirit guide who claimed to be "Jesus."
ARTICLES, REVIEWS, RADIO PROGRAMS EXPOSING PAGAN, NEW AGE, OCCULT TEACHINGS IN THE SHACK
Refashioning God: RE-imagining, RE-inventing, RE-novating, RE-painting, RE-creating GOD
By T.A. MacMahon (The Berean Call)
Mar 19, 2009 ... In an interview with Pastor Kendall Adams of KAYP Radio, Paul Young denied the substitutionary Atonement of ChristWilliam P. Young (Author of The Shack)
By Eric Barger
By Mike Oppenheimer (Let Us Reason)
by Lighthouse Trails Press Release
by Lighthouse Trails Blog
Quotes posted at Lighthouse Trails
Read Transcript of part of the The Shack Radio Interview Transcript
Listen to The Shack Radio Interview
Listen to a shorter audio segment of The Shack Radio Interview
A shorter review by James B. De Young (PDF Version - 9 pages)
by More Books and Things
by Chris Lawson (SRN)
by Calvary Distribution Blog (Posted by keyansoltani in Untagged, Aug 3, 2008)
by Lighthouse Trails
by Lighthouse Trails
by Warren Smith
(Former New Age practitioner Warren Smith warns of the New Age teachings in The Shack)
by John Lanagan
(Exposes occult aspects, including 'Papa [female Hawaiian goddess] in The Shack)
by Berit Kjos (Exposes dangerous occult teachings brought forth through The Shack and A Course in Miracles [spiritism])
by Larry DeBruyn
(Exposes dangerous dynamics of vain imaginations that lead to subtle and blatant idolatry - in The Shack)
by Pastor Larry Debruyn
by Pastor Larry Debruyn
by Mike Oppenheimer (Let Us Reason Ministries)
by Tim Challies
(An in-depth expose' of the false teachings found William P. Young book, The Shack)
by Pastor Gary Gilley
by Pastor Jeffrey Whittaker
by Pastor Jeffrey Whittaker
SECULAR NEWS ARTICLES EXPOSING PROBLEMS WITH THE SHACK
by USA Today
A REMINDER FROM A.W. TOZER ABOUT WRONG IDEAS ABOUT GOD
“Wrong ideas about God are not only the fountain from which the polluted waters of idolatry flow; they are themselves idolatrous. The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true.
Perverted notions about God soon rot the religion in which they appear. The long career of Israel demonstrates this clearly enough, and the history of the Church confirms it. So necessary to the Church is a lofty concept of God that when that concept in any measure declines, the Church with her worship and her moral standards decline along with it. The first step down for any church is taken when it surrenders its high opinion of God..."
- A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (HarperCollins: San Francisco), 1961, p. 4.
NOTE FROM SPIRITUAL RESEARCH NETWORK:
As a result of posting THE SHACK page here on our Spiritual Research Network (SRN) website, the ministry of SRN has sufferred the loss of donor support. We also lost a large amount of ministry support in 2006, shortly after we began exposing contemplative spirituality / centering prayer, Christian yoga, Alpha Course affiliation with Roman Catholicism, the false teachings found in Purpose Driven materials, etc. During that period of time, as overseas missionaries, to the United Kingdom, we lost close to $1000.00/per month of missions support.
In light of these things, THE SHACK page will continue to remain here. This page, like other websites exposing the false teachings in THE SHACK, is helping to un-confuse many people who have been confused by the false teachings of THE SHACK. It is also helping people see clearly the improper and un-Christlike actions of endorsement of THE SHACK by compromising, undiscerning, and/or ignorant Christian leaders, pastors, youth leaders, etc.
The list of links ABOVE provides more than ample evidence regarding false teachings in THE SHACK. The authors and ministries that have researched, written and spoken out about the false teachings in THE SHACK have done so whilst upholding the historic, Biblical, Christian faith.
Your personal thoughts are welcome at srnadministrator [PLEASE REMOVE THIS SPAM FILTER] @mac.com Please note that all emails are read but we are unable to repsond to all emails.
In Christ,
Chris Lawson
Spiritual Research Network
