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
dream love-you wonder-love
Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.
life dream past
When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.
dream may able
We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams
dream live-life responsibility
When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
dream
Great dreams require great courage.
dream promise portraits
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
dream heart giving
God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.
alive faith hold means vibrant word
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.