The road trip that changed the world - Mark Sayers

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?