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Thanks for hosting Paul Young on OPB - I have read The Shack and am a fan of the book - seconding the view expressed by Pam Hegeweide. For me personally, the "Church" has not been a source of relationship with God, rather a place to go because that was how I was raised and somewhere along the line I missed out on the personal relationship available with God. I pray to God, I talk to God, I go through the motions, but until I had an epiphany about the Trinity by reading The Shack, I was a lost soul. Now I enjoy striving to get my relationship with God at the level portrayed in the book and for that I thank Paul for writing his story.

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