Escape Room

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In his message ‘Escape Room,’ Pastor Erwin McManus delivers a powerful message that illuminates how Jesus is the 'escape' from the rooms built by negative forces in our lives. Whether it be mistakes from our past, feelings of shame or inadequacy, or fear of the future, all of us have an escape room from which only Jesus can set us free.

Pastor Erwin draws from a story in John 8:2-11, where Jesus is found in a crowd of people accusing a woman who has been caught in adultery. The religious elite are intent on trapping the woman in her worst moment, but Jesus offers her freedom and a path to a better future.

“If you want to find your way out of the escape room, you need to let Jesus be your defense.”
-Erwin McManus

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"Escape Room" message by Erwin McManus recorded at Mosaic Studios.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor of Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast.
0:14.0	Thank you for joining us today. I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you, and transforms you,
0:19.8	and that this is just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus. Enjoy the message.
0:25.6	I want to take a moment and welcome everyone to Mosaic. We're so grateful that you've joined us today.
0:32.8	I'm Erwin McManus, and if you hear for the very first time, I hope that you take a moment to
0:38.4	really just lean in and allow God to speak to in a deep and meaningful way. It's just such a beautiful
0:44.4	thing to realize that there are people not only in Los Angeles, not over the pack rim, but across
0:49.7	that state and even across the world who join us week after week and make Mosaic their home,
0:55.5	their community, their family. And even though we may not know where you are, maybe we've never met
1:01.8	face to face. We want to know that we love you and that we're for you and that there are people
1:06.4	here and who are praying for you everywhere. You know, one of the phenomenons over the past
1:12.5	few years that I've noticed that grabbed some attention was this idea of escape rooms. And
1:18.8	years ago, David Arcos designed a very unique kind of experience in East LA where it was very
1:24.4	similar to an escape room kind of experience. But frankly, one of the things that fascinates me and
1:30.4	also terrifies me is the idea of being locked into a room and you have to decode the room to find
1:36.5	the signs and the clues and to find the keys to be able to step by step find the way to escape.
1:44.1	Now, I understand some escape rooms are literally just a room and some escape rooms are a house
1:48.6	designed with room after room after room where you have to work your way through and I think
1:53.6	ideally you're not supposed to be trapped in there by yourself. You're supposed to be there
1:56.3	with a few people and you work together to escape that room. Well, if I can help it, I'm never
2:03.6	going to experience that. But I do know that in life, I've experienced that escape room kind of
2:09.2	phenomenon where I felt like I'm suffocating because I've trapped myself in a moment that I
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