The Trouble With Paris

marksayers — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:42:53 +0000

The Trouble with Paris: Following Jesus in a World of Plastic Promises by Mark Sayers

”Why does our culture promise so much yet deliver so little?”

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: a candy so ‘grape-ey’ it doesn’t taste like grapes any more; a model’s photo so manipulated that it doesn’t even look like her; a theme park version of life that tells us we can have something better than the real thing. But what if this reality is not all that it’s cracked up to be? 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, Mark Sayers shows us how the lifestyles of most young adults (19-35) 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.

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About Mark

Mark Sayers is an author and speaker who specializes in interpreting popular culture from a Christian viewpoint.

Mark is the Director of Über a ministry that specializes in issues of youth and young adult discipleship. He is also leader of Red East in Melbourne, Australia, an innovative Christian community specifically reaching the young adult demographic. He is a highly sought after speaker, consultant and thinker in the areas of Generation Y, pop culture and youth and young Adult discipleship and spirituality. Mark is the author of the Trouble with Paris: Following Jesus in a World of Plastic Promises.

Mark has been in full time ministry for 15 years. In this time he has been involved in a variety of ministry appointments. From Youth Work with the Salvation Army, to ministry with the poor, to denominational work, to writing for Christian popular culture magazines, to lecturing, to Research and Development roles, and roles as a Church Planter and Pastor.

Mark has studied Advertising at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Theology and Intercultural Studies at the Bible College of Victoria and at Tabor College Victoria.

Mark lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife Trudi and daughter Grace.