Erwin McManus Quotes

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Erwin McManus

Profession : Author

Birth : August 28, 1958

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

Erwin McManus

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

Erwin McManus

Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!

Erwin McManus

Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus

The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus

When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus

I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.

Erwin McManus

I became a Christian because I met God.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

Erwin McManus

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.

Erwin McManus