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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Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.
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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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We can’t change history, but we can create the future.
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If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.
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For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.
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My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them.
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When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.
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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.
The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34.
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Promise Keepers was looking for a movement that can actualize the hope of Jesus, the hope that we see. And 'Uprising' was what they were looking for.
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People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.
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Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.
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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.