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
cities space church
You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.
church needs world
The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.
kissing irrelevance church
The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.
country children church
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
church doe world
The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
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The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.
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The system of Christian celebrity was not a good space for me, and it was brutal on my kids - my son in college was frequently confronted by people railing against me as a heretic.
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So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'
love
While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.
religion
We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.
jesus people religion
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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From the beginning, our community has been focused on people outside of Christianity. But that emphasis means that a lot of hard work is represented in every person who is baptized.
asking lack solution
If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community.
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One of the things you'll discover... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.