One of the things I really enjoyed about this book is how it makes you face up to the radical forgiveness that we so often speak of within the Christian church. It is very easy for us to say that sin is sin and no one sin is greater than any other before God. It's easy to say this, but extremely hard to actually believe it. When we read The Shack we enter into Mack's world and his pain. We enter into his struggle with forgiveness as The Judge prods him to forgive the man who brutalized his daughter. And, of course, we struggle with it as readers. Yet the message of the book, (and I would argue of the gospel of Jesus Christ) is that we are to forgive even the most heinous of crimes.
But why? How? Can you forgive as Mack is asked to forgive? How does your own theology comprehend such radical forgiveness? How does The Shack explain this forgiveness?
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