Home > Work > The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream

The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream QUOTES

The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream QUOTES

1 " The ones who are lost are not the sinners who are listening to Jesus, but the religious people who have no problems, at least in their own minds. "

― C. Baxter Kruger , The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream

2 " For the disciples, Jesus is not a mere prophet heralding the latest divine message. Jesus is a revolution. Note the very first verse of John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” These three simple statements carry hitherto unknown and inconceivable ideas about God that are destined to change the world. As a good Jew, John certainly knows the first verse in the Hebrew Bible: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”2 But John has met Jesus, and “saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father.”3 While John certainly agrees that God created all things, he cannot leave it at that, for he has seen something that has changed his understanding of everything. Note the parallel "

― C. Baxter Kruger , The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream

3 " For a great song on this, see Dave Ligenfelter, “Free to Be Me,” available at songsfromtheshack.com. 2. "

― C. Baxter Kruger , The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream

4 " I love the scene in The Shack when Papa says to Mackenzie, “Just follow my voice” (91). It is no more complicated than that. But oh, Lord, there are so many voices. Jesus’ Papa loves us forever, and shouts our name with a smiling face, but we have weird ears. There are childhood wounds, the voices of our disappointed parents, the sermons on the angry god, the constant whisper: “I am not worthy, I am not important, not lovable, not good enough, not okay. "

― C. Baxter Kruger , The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream

5 " The Holy Spirit discloses Jesus to us so that we can know and experience Jesus’ own relationship with his Father, and be free to live in the Father’s embrace with Jesus. "

― C. Baxter Kruger , The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream

6 " The Weight of Glory, "

― C. Baxter Kruger , The Shack Revisited: There Is More Going On Here than You Ever Dared to Dream