Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and this is the Mosaic Podcast. I want to thank you so much for joining

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Welcome and we are about to begin the seven-part series starting next week that I really want to

kind of set some things in a frame this morning as we move ahead because sometimes

there's so many good things in the Bible, so many great teachings in the scriptures that

you can forget what's at the epicenter. I mean sometimes it feels like the church can almost

be the spiritual version of Dr. Phil. You know everybody's kind of coming and trying to learn how

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