Erwin McManus Quotes
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The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
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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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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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Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
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I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.
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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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God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.
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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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When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.
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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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It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
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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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If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
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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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This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
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The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
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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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Greatness comes with discipline.
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My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst for the movement of Jesus Christ ... Some people are upset with me because it sounds like I'm anti-Christian. I think they might be right.
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How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.
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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're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.