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" I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people. "

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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. "

Erwin McManus

Information

Change

Bible

" 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. "

" I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin. "

Erwin McManus

Suffering

Time

" 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. "

" We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm. "

" The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence. "

" 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. "

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

" How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life? "

Erwin McManus

Work

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. "

" 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

Look

See

" 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. "

" There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity. "

" Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible. "

" I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion. "

" While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Erwin McManus

Future

Text

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from. "

" 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. "

" You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space. "