Ebook: The Road Trip That Changed the World: The Unlikely Theory That Will Change How You View Culture, the Church, And, Most Importantly, Yourself

Part 1: A tale of two roads -- How worship became entertainment -- From home to the road -- The journey -- The secular world -- An immanent world -- Carving out a life of meaning -- The Sixties -- The California self -- Superflat -- Feelings vs faith -- The slavery of absolute freedom -- Faith on the road -- The road turns into a nightmare -- At the end of the road a cross -- Part 2: The road home -- An odl kind of Christian -- Leaving Ur -- Breaking into heaven -- How getting God right changes everything -- Holy vandalism -- Finding transcendence in the ordinary -- The relationship that changes the world -- Cultivating creation -- Finding hope in an atomic holocaust.;"What if the problem is us? Sixty years ago a goatee beard would have gotten you beat up in a lot of places. Chin fuzz was the symbol of the Beats or Beatniks, a mid-century, marginal group who pioneered a new kind of lifestyle. Their approach to life was hedonistic, experiential, fluid, and individualistic. Their contradictory approach to spirituality combined a search for God with a search for 'kicks'. In 1947, these Beatnik heroes set out on a road trip across America re-writing the "life-script" of all future generations. Theirs was a new kind of lifestyle for a secular age. Their lives then (like so many of our lives now) were built upon experience, pleasure, mobility and self-discovery. They would also model a new approach to faith: desiring Christ, while still pursuing a laundry list of vices. Yet this dream would turn into a nightmare and the open road would lead back to an ancient half-forgotten path. This was a path trodden by millions of feet over thousands of years. It was a path that began with a single step of faith as a pilgrim named Abraham stepped away from a cynical culture. A path of devotion that would lead to a cross on a hill named Golgotha."--Publisher's description.