Quotes from Erwin McManus

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.

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

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

If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

Truth should never travel faster than love.

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

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.

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.

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'