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
passion passionate
When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.
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So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.
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To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
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When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.
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There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.
deal fit work
The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.
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I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.
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I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.