Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and I want to welcome you to the Mosaic Podcast. I want to also bring

into some exciting things that are happening here. If you go to the Mosaic app, you will

learn about our conference coming up this year, about MSC's new album and their tour across the

country and you can learn how to connect and being more involved in mosaic in so many

different ways and by the way we now have the mosaic YouTube channel and you

go access not only these talks but

other fresh and new materials that are being created specifically for that

channel and so if you want to be connected in a richer and fuller way, not only being part of the

podcast, get to the moussaic out and get to the channel and we'll see you there.

I was pretty much just born into a whole Buddhist family. I grew up with probably like the ideal Buddhist background where I was just there every Sunday. I was there volunteering, but for some reason I didn't feel like I really

belong I was just like going through so many different avenues I'm just trying to like behold

and fulfill this really deep sense of I don't know what it was it was like a very deep hole

that was feeling I couldn't fill anymore and I just woke up from this dream where I was

church hopping I was like I think I need to go to church and I just

found Mosay I found the live stream. I was like wow I really liked the music. I felt

good after the message and this was just from the internet. I was like I think I

need to go back to church. Right and this was the first time I decided to go to

church for myself and I had no idea what I was doing. I just knew that I needed to go because I actually felt better for the first time ever.

I came to Mosaic in February on my birthday actually.

And it was the best birthday ever because I found community through that.

And then four months later I got baptized.

I remember there was a spontaneous baptism and I stood up

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