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We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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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 our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary
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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
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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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We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
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The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.
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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
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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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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.
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Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.
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We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'
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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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I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and embraced regardless of differences.
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When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.
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Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
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To live outside of God's will puts us in danger to live in his will makes us dangerous.
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Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
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Our citizenship is in eternity history is our temporary residence.
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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
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A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.
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