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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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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We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.
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I became a Christian because I met God.
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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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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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God has leveraged the human spirit to move in His direction, and all the material we need to bring a person to the realization that they were created by God actually already exists inside that person.
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To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
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You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.
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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.'
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While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.