Sermon @22May2011

SOUNG TEACHING/DOCTRINE
1.

Do the Survey: 25 Questions in 5 minutes

2.

Pass out the Marking Sheet

3.

Go through 30+ verses on FALSE TEACHINGS /

TEACHERS

4.

Charles Spurgeon: Discernment is not so much about

differentiating the right from the wrong (thats easy
/simple), but it is the God-given ability to differentiate the
right from the ALMOST-RIGHT
I am NOT worry about open, overt, frontal attacks, but I
am weary of subtle, surreptitious teachings/ideas that
undermine the truth

5.

Instead of a didactic (instructive; especially excessively)

teaching, I shall use the Case Study method this morning

6.

Describe how The Shack (by William Paul Young)

rocks the Christian community:

Its success is phenomenal

Written by an unknown author
Distributed by an unknown publisher
Who spent less than US$300 in marketing
The Shack has sold more than 10 millions copies
And is about to be made into a movie!!

- New York Times: No. 1 for months

- World Market: No. 1 for how long?
- Do I have your attention now
-

7.

Describe the author William Paul Young and the story of

The Shack:
- William Paul Young, Paul to his friends, describes
himself as an office manager, janitor, and hotel night
clerk in Gresham, Oregon. That sounds pretty
normal, but his upbringing was anything but normal.
The child of missionaries, Young was raised in West
Papua (now Indonesia) among the Dani tribe.
Frederick Buechner states that at its heart, most
theology, like fiction, is essentially autobiography. The
same can be said about The Shack, a work of fiction
with a theology. Its main character, Mack, is essentially
Young, and the events of one weekend in Macks life
reflect the experiences of Youngs life over the course of
eleven years. Young wrote the novel for his family as a
gift. The Shack, then, is an unusually intimate baring
of the authors soul in the form of a novel.
- Describe Youngs life, from West Papua to adulthood.

- Describe the Story of Mack and Missy

- Pictures of Papa as Oracle in The Matrix?

Gloria Foster as Oracle in Matrix 1 & 2

Mary Alice as Oracle in The Matrix 3 & 4

Some say Papa is more like Queen Latifah

- Picture of night scene in Avatar?

- The POSITIVE comments by Christian Leaders

(i)
Dr Eugene Peterson
(ii)
Dr Roger Olson (iii)
Dr Randal Rauser(iv)
Gary and Cathy Deddo -

- The NEGATIVE comments by Christian Leaders

(i)
Dr James De Young
(ii)
Dr Michael Youssef
(iii)
Dr Norman Geisler
(iv)
Timothy Challies
(v)

8.

Describe the POSITIVE aspects of the story:

9.

Notwithstanding the Positive, there are distinctly

NEGATIVE aspects of the story; in fact there are
downright false/heretical teachings in the book:

- I must emphasize that I have tremendously enjoyed

reading the book; in fact was thoroughly encouraged
by its portrayal of God the Father, Jesus the Son and
the Holy Spirit
- This is one book that Yoke Kum has finished way
before me
- Yet as much as I have cried over it, have my spirit
lifted high and been brought to my knees at the same
time, I have the gnawing sense that something is not
quite right.. and I remember what Charles Spurgeon
has said:
- As so here they are, the false teachings:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)

10.

What do we do with a book like The Shack and a

person like William Paul Young?
(i)
(ii)

11.

If you have NOT read

If you HAD read

What do we do with other similar books?

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

Emergent books such as McClarens books on

A New Kind of Christianity etc?
Love Wins by ..?
Blue Like Jazz by?
If Grace Is True by .?

12. Conclusion