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 be more involved in mosaic in so many

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

and you can 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 be a part of the

podcast, get to the Mosaic app and get to the channel and we'll see you there.

You know when I was growing up, it always seemed to me that achievement was a mystery.

I was never one of those people that just elevated to the top, rose to the top in any endeavor and anything I ever tried.

I was one of those people that knew what it felt like to be probably the worst person on the team.

But when I played football in high school, in my sophomore year, in Miami, Florida,

I was the 14th string wingback, which tells you how many wingbacks the team had.

We had 14, and I was number 14.

And I looked back and I realized I didn't even have the ability to move up to 13.

I finished as a 14th string wingback.

But then you would think, well, maybe it's just because you were at that time,

not an athlete, you were really an artist.

But I also played in the band. I played the socks. And I was the fourth chair.

And that's how many saxophone players we had. We had four sax players and I was always the fourth chair.

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