ANSWERING EMAILS PT 2 - S03E11
MCMANUS (Formerly Mind Shift) with Erwin & Aaron McManus
Erwin McManus + Aaron McManus
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
(Biblical Language, Christian Language, Human Language)
Erwin and Aaron receive a 'hostile' email from a listener who worries that the Battle Ready content isn't biblical. Erwin breaks down for us what 'biblical language' is and how it relates to Jesus.
How does the language of the Church relate to the outsider? Aaron and Erwin discuss how traditional Christian jargon can be alienating to a non-believer and create an exclusive 'insider' culture. Erwin explains his intention for Mosaic to be a place that uses human language so anyone can understand and experience connection.
They dive into the conflict between Christians and others who are used to hearing certain phrases and cliches, types of speech the email's writer strongly associates with faith. Erwin points out that we want to hear things explained in the language we're used to, but Jesus came and explained things to people, not in the language of the religious, but in the language of the people. His ability to communicate truths without religious language is something we all should strive toward.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hi my name is Aaron McManus and this is the Battle Ready podcast and I'm |
| 0:18.2 | here joined by my father. I'm Erwin McManus and I am Aaron's |
| 0:22.3 | co-pilot here on the Battle Ready. |
| 0:24.0 | And this week we have kind of an interesting one. |
| 0:26.6 | We tried something out on Tuesday where we just answered emails. |
| 0:30.0 | And it was really cool because I was hoping to get through like five or six or seven of them |
| 0:33.6 | we really only got to two and then we got one today that I thought was kind of interesting and |
| 0:38.8 | it was one that was like a little critical maybe calling this here it. It was pretty long. |
| 0:43.0 | Rather long. And they seem to really love you and to be really uncertain about me. |
| 0:48.0 | I think they love me for the wrong reasons. |
| 0:50.0 | No, no, it seems like the right reasons, but I thought it feels a little adversarial, a little bit of an edge to it, so we thought we should actually read it and talk about it. |
| 0:59.8 | And you have to understand, we're, we're strong people, but we're also sensitive people too. |
| 1:06.1 | So there's some moments. |
| 1:08.0 | I was like, hey, I got an interesting email, maybe they're calling you a bit of a hair |
| 1:12.3 | tick, but they said they love me, so should I read it to you? |
| 1:16.1 | So you like them right away. |
| 1:17.6 | No, I didn't like them. |
| 1:18.9 | You know, we're together on this. |
| 1:20.3 | We're together on this. |
| 1:20.8 | We're not competitive. |
| 1:21.9 | Except for when we played basketball. |
| 1:23.2 | You were 62 and you shot the lights out of the house last night. |
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