Hey guys, I want to welcome you to the Mosaic podcast.

I'm Pastor Erwin, I'm Phil McManus, and just wanted to thank you for listening.

In case you didn't know, I just released a new book, it's called The Genius of Jesus,

the Man Who Changed Everything, and you can order it today at TheGeniusOfJesus.com.

So one of the curious things that has happened over the last couple of years is just to kind

of watch the psychological effect of two years of quarantine and COVID and pandemics and

all of these different scenarios and how it affects people, not only does it affect individuals

but it affects us as a whole.

One of the things that for me has been really interesting is to watch different arenas

of human experience either thrive or just crash and burn.

I mean, the world of technology has gone crazy during the whole quarantine time when businesses

were shutting their doors, technology was opening their doors.

I mean, movie theaters have just absolutely crashed.

And so something we thought would all be apart of our culture, just going to the movies.

Now if you actually even go, you have the whole theater to yourself.

But then it creates massive advances in technology.

I mean, without the quarantine, would we have this extraordinary life-giving world-changing app

called TikTok?

So you can see, there are good things that happen and odd things that happen.

And one of the things that for me has been really interesting is that before in a global

scale, I would travel across the world and I would speak at conferences and speak at

churches and different things like that.

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