Erwin McManus Quotes
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The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.
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Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.
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Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
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As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books are so important. As a pastor, though, I can be a part of creating the change the world so desperately needs.
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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.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
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It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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Greatness comes with discipline.
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So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.
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The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.
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The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
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I am convinced most Americans - yes even white Americans - are committed to justice and equality for all people. I am convinced that most Americans are disgusted and even ashamed that Nazism is alive and well in this country that fought to defeat its evil ideology.
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What is the future you're creating right now?
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You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
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I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
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Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.
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Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.
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The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
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We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.
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You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
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Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.