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. – 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
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
Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality. – Erwin McManus
We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion. – Erwin McManus
God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from. – 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 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. – Erwin McManus
People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we’re doing. – Erwin McManus
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. – Erwin McManus
Promise Keepers was looking for a movement that can actualize the hope of Jesus, the hope that we see. And ‘Uprising’ was what they were looking for. – Erwin McManus
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. – Erwin McManus
Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song! – Erwin McManus
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. – 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
One of the things you’ll discover… as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they’re actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work. – Erwin McManus
It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental. – Erwin McManus
Often we talk about God’s ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power. – 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
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
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
