I enjoyed reading the Forward of this book and I was almost to the end of the Forward before I realized that the author had written the it. Usually it is a friend or expert who introduces the book.
After reading the Forward, did you feel like you knew the main character -- Mack? I did.
My favorite sentence in the forward is this: "Suffice it to say that while some things may not be scientifically provable, they can still be true nonetheless." This is how I feel about the prayer journeys that we do in worship sometimes. Do we actually go to Jerusalem or Bethlehem or outer space? Well, at least our bodies don't! But I know I feel like I've been somewhere else besides the church sanctuary when the prayer is over. I know I've been with God. How about you?
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I sometimes skip the foreword in a book. Usually I just want to get into the "real" story and not read about the author's thoughts and purpose in writing the book. But in this book, the foreword sets up the character of Mack. If we didn't read the foreword, we wouldn't know about his difficult childhood, his time in seminary, or about what kind of person he is in general.
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