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    The Road Trip that Changed the World: The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself
    The Road Trip that Changed the World: The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself
    The Road Trip that Changed the World: The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself
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    The Road Trip that Changed the World: The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself

    By Mark Sayers

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    Can’t find no satisfaction?

    There’s no shortage of prescriptions for restlessness out there: Seek adventure. Live your life. Don’t hold back.

    Sound familiar?

    The Road Trip that Changed the World is a book challenging the contemporary conviction that personal freedom and self-fulfillment are the highest good.

    Like the characters in a Jack Kerouac novel, we’ve dirtied the dream of white picket fences with exhaust fumes. The new dream is the open road—and freedom.

    Yet we still desire the solace of faith. We like the concept of the sacred, but unwittingly subscribe to secularized, westernized spirituality. We’re convinced that there is a deeper plot to this thing called life, yet watered-down, therapeutic forms of religion are all we choose to swallow, and our personal story trumps any larger narrative.

    This is the non-committal culture of the road. Though driving on freely, we have forgotten where we’re headed.

    Jesus said His road is narrow. He wasn’t some aimless nomad. He had more than just a half tank of gas—He had passion, objectives, and a destination.

    Do you?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9780802479396
    The Road Trip that Changed the World: The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself
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    Mark Sayers

    MARK SAYERS is a cultural commentator, writer and speaker, who is highly sought out for his unique and perceptive insights into faith and contemporary culture. Mark is the author of The Trouble with Paris and The Vertical Self. Mark is also the Senior Leader of Red Church. Mark lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife Trudi, daughter Grace, and twin boys Hudson and Billy.

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      The premise: Jack Kerouac ruined the Western world with his philosophy of the perpetual vagabond.Sayers's analysis is myopic. The book is far too long, repetitive and sweeping in its conclusions. Sayers fails to touch on the nature-freedom dualism that underlies the story. The real problem. This goes back to Dewey, Freudian psychoanalysis and behavioural psychology. Jack K. was a product of these idea and the approach of education he found at the New School.America is to blame for all of Australia's vacuous culture. Diverting attention away from Australia's own home-made poisons. Australia has been blaming America since the GI's brought chocolate and stockings to the women during WWII.The theology is thin. Reformed philosophy is better equipped to do the heavy lifting when it comes to this type of writing. Sayers implies a loose, charismatic, Arminian framework. Not recommended.
    • 4/5
      A potent, cogent critique of contemporary Christianity using two "road trips" as the framework. Jack Kerouac's book "On the Road", which the author argues had a profound impact on culture including religious culture. In contrast, the author considers the Old Testament story of Abraham to be paradigmatic for articulating what the Christian journey should be. Essentially, Sayers believes that modern Christianity is superficial, directionless, and powerless. He calls modern Christians back to an Abrahamic road trip of total commitment.

      This book is an excellent read and Sayers uses language poetically and powerfully. I couldn't help thinking, though, that Sayer's view is perhaps a romantic yearning for a world and a Christianity that may not be possible in the 21st century. It's definitely a provocative perspective and worthy of every thinking Christian's time to read it.
    • 3/5
      An enlightening - for me - read. Would recommend.

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