Erwin McManus
Erwin McManus
Erwin Raphael McManusis an author, futurist, filmmaker, and designer. He is the founder and lead pastor of Mosaic, a church in Los Angeles, California. Erwin is a popular speaker on issues related to postmodernism and postmodern Christianity, but also writes and lectures on topics such as culture, change, creativity, and leadership...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 August 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.
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We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.
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How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?
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The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.
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When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.
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There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.
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I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.
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I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.
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It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.
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Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.
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I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.
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Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!
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We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.
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We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.