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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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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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 think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.
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I think the exploration and the search for who Jesus is, and that 2,000 years later we're still trying to figure out who He was, and did He really rise from the dead... And I think for me, the answer is 'yes,' and that's why we're talking about Him today.
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We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'
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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.
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We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.
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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.
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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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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.