On today’s “Calling For Truth” Radio Program, we will speak with Author and well-known Internet Blogger, Tim Challies (www.challies.com). Tim is currently attending and live-blogging the Banner of Truth Ministers’ conference in Harrisburg PA. The conference is being held on the campus of Messiah College. The speakers at the conference include, Iain Murray, Rick Phillips, Ian Hamilton, David Troxel and David Campbell.
During our interview with Tim today, we will ask him to give us a brief update re: the conference and then we will switch gears and discuss a review Tim recently post of the very popular book “The Shack”. Tim has written, and provided (you can download it for free HERE) a very helpful resource entitled “A Readers Review of the Shack”.
On his blog, Tim comments, “In January of this year I released a review of William P. Young’s The Shack. Since that time the review has been read tens of thousands of times (and no doubt many times more than that at Amazon where it has been voted on 700+ times and has generated almost 100 comments). I continue to receive two or three emails every day either thanking me for the review or expressing anger that I could have given it a negative review. This book is a phenomenon.
Despite the book’s popularity among Christians, believers are divided on whether this book is biblically sound. Where Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver says it “has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim Progress did for his,” Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says, “This book includes undiluted heresy.” While singer and songwriter Michael W. Smith says “The Shack will leave you craving for the presence of God,” Mark Driscoll, Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle says, “Regarding the Trinity, it’s actually heretical.”
During the program today, we will ask Tim to summarize his review.
