“The Shack” became a best-selling book and now comes to the big screen. Why did this fictional book touch so many people so deeply? And why is it likely that the movie will do the same thing? This message introduces a three-message series addressing some of the major issues raised in the book. There seem to be two chief reasons for the impact of the book: 1) People identify with “The Great Sadness,” and 2) People long to experience the “spiritual.” Explore these two reasons and then listen on to these topics the next three weeks: “Why Is There Suffering?” “Can Good Come From Evil?” “Can You Really Know God?”