Return to Book Page. The Trouble With Paris: What if you're living in the wrong reality? Doesn't everyone want the good life these days? Our shopping mall world offers us a never-ending array of pleasures to explore. Consumerism promises us a vision of heaven on earth-a reality that's hyper -real. We've all experienced hyperreality: But what if this reality is not all that it's cracked up to be?
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Admit it, we've been ripped off by our culture and its version of reality that leaves us lonely, bored, and trapped. But what's the alternative? In The Trouble With Paris , pastor Mark Sayers shows us how the lifestyles of most young adults actually work against a life of meaning and happiness to sabotage their faith.
Sayers shows how a fresh understanding of God's intention for our world is the true path to happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Paperback , pages.
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I knew how the advertisers work because I am a Marketing graduate, but what I found out in this book surprised me. Mark Sayers provided a refreshing view on how we can maintain our hold of God's reality while battling with the culture of hyperreality. Everyone should read this book; especially the young adults. When you're done, you'll have a This book is an eye-opener. When you're done, you'll have a new perspective about your life, your relationships, and all the things that you do.
This book will remind you that you have a chance to begin again, with a clean slate in a world full of possiblities. Sayers shows that corporate America has erected plastic Idols that manipulate consumers to always want more, and more, and even more of that plastic stuff. This hyper-reality is a vacuum that leaves worshipers empty. Joy is easier to maintain when we stop comparing ourselves with the Joneses.
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Jones buys a new Corvette, or moves to the better part of town; he leaves us with our broken down car, and our adequate house we feel a sense of shame that we are not making enough. What is the best one?
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There are way too many to compare, how do we make a decision without that feeling of guilt? We could stand there for thirty minutes, in order to make a good decision. Death is the spotlight that the creed of hyper-reality is fraudulent and a heretical religion. More money cannot conquer the effects of gravity and the ultimate end from this world. But we can control our expectations. Maybe this book will be a step in rethinking their lives and the choices they make. The bad The book stumbles in some of its Theological Presuppositions.
I am not sure that Sayers has a firm grasp on the triune god; it seemed that he made Jesus a separate entity from God.
This is a classical heretical misstep. Sep 29, Jessica Weleski rated it it was amazing Shelves: If I could tell people to put one book on their summer reading list, this book would be it. Sayers discusses the way that our airbrushed, social media obsessed culture has pulled us into great tension.
On the one hand, we know we live in an imperfect reality, but on the other hand, we desperately want to edit our lives for perfection, assuming that the mundane and even the awful events of life are not moments to live thr If I could tell people to put one book on their summer reading list, this book would be it. On the one hand, we know we live in an imperfect reality, but on the other hand, we desperately want to edit our lives for perfection, assuming that the mundane and even the awful events of life are not moments to live through and learn from but are instead blights to be avoided.
The point Sayers made most memorably is his comparison of hypereality to other folk religions. He points out that modern Christians claim allegiance to God, but in reality, many of their decisions and time are devoted instead to striving after and maintaining the hypereal world. Though not an in-depth academic book, this is a book I could read again for new insight because it's packed with astute cultural observations. Feb 10, Walt Walkowski rated it really liked it. Really, really good book.
Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. This DVD-based series helps people examine three different levels of reality: The product features one DVD in a standard amaray case. The DVD includes four minute video episodes full of unique animation, fast-paced teaching, and relevant subject matter. Questions are interspersed throughout the video to facilitate discussion, and the participant's guide sold separately serves as a companion to the DVD.
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