The Drive For Greatness | The “Best Of” Series

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Many of us grew up in environments where we were encouraged to lay our ambitions aside in the name of following Jesus. We were told that it was vain to pursue success in many arenas. In this message, Pastor Erwin McManus challenges this cultural belief by diving into Matthew 20:20-28. In this passage, Jesus redefines the definition of greatness for his followers.

Pastor Erwin shares that Scripture never condemns the human desire to accomplish great things. In Matthew 20, Jesus simply encouraged his followers to see greatness as the result of sacrificial servanthood. We were not meant to live average, mediocre lives. We were meant to live with an ambition that works hard to see dreams accomplished and success realized. Because we are exposed to so much information about those who have accomplished greatness, it can be easy to believe that high levels of success are easy to come by. Pastor Erwin suggests that our greatness is waiting to be uncovered by hard work and discipline. Since we are representing God, we are wired with a desire to bring our very best to the world around us. “If you go to the edge of servanthood you will find yourself standing on the brink of greatness.”

-Erwin McManus

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"The Drive For Greatness" message by Erwin McManus, previously recorded at Mosaic Hollywood.

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0:00.0	Hello this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor of Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast. Thank you for joining us today.
0:15.4	I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you, and transforms you, and that this is
0:20.5	just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus.
0:24.0	Enjoy the message.
0:27.0	Have you ever had someone ask you a question and it just sticks to you. You can't shake it. I had to have to me last
0:35.7	week. After the gathering this young guy came up to me named Shane Reed and I love
0:41.1	Shane. I've noticed his mom and dad for years and I've watched Shane grow up and
0:45.8	and Shane was always one of those savants. You know, one of those kids you just knew was a genius,
0:51.0	before he knew he was a genius, although I think he knew at a young age, because it was sort of obvious that he was smarter than everyone else.
0:58.0	And over the years, he's come to me and said, I have a question, I always made me nervous always made me nervous. I know his 14 year old question is going to be profound
1:06.8	and I don't know if I can answer it.
1:08.0	And sometimes when I would answer the question I look at him thinking,
1:10.1	am I right?
1:11.3	So he came up to me Sunday and he said,
1:15.0	I have a question and I said, okay,
1:16.8	because I'm always going to make room for Shane.
1:18.2	And, and, but I was nervous.
1:20.1	I was bracing myself, because I knew this
1:21.7	is going to be some metaphysical questions,
1:23.0	some question about God's existence,
1:24.4	or some question about the Cosmos, or some question about quantum mechanics,
1:27.6	but I was ready for all of those, I can handle those.
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