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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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.
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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.
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We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams
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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.
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Great dreams require great courage.
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Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
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God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.
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You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.
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There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.
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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.
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One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.
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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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The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.
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We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.