The New Mind: Mosaic Conference 2019

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever considered that intellect and faith are not at odds with one another? What if God intended to draw us closer to Him through our minds? In this life-changing message from Mosaic Conference in 2019, Pastor Erwin McManus encourages us to lean into the power of intelligence instead of being afraid that it will draw us away from a life of faith.

Opening up the scriptures in Genesis, Pastor Erwin proposes that our capacity before the fall of man was infinite. For example, Adam was able to name and remember countless animals that God gave him authority over. Pastor Erwin wonders: Why do we have fantasies of being able to fly and have superpowers? Could it be that these fantasies are a shadow of the life we once lived - a life of incredible capacity?

From 2 Corinthians, Pastor Erwin emphasizes the beauty of our relationship with God, that we get to be connected to his thoughts. Our minds are where God wants to speak to us, imagine with us and create a new future through us. In our relationship to God, we have limitless potential.

If you’ve wondered how intellect fits into a life of faith, this message will encourage you to be unafraid in your pursuit of higher thinking.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, I want to walk you me to the Mosaic podcast.
0:11.8	I'm Pastor Erwin and I feel like I just wanted to thank you for listening.
0:15.5	In case you didn't know, I just released a new book, it's called The Genius of Jesus,
0:19.7	The Man Who Changed Everything, and you can order it today at TheGeniusOfJesus.com.
0:27.0	It's always a challenge to decide how to close a moment like this.
0:35.6	I love our theme, The New, which means really, this conversation never ends, because you
0:43.0	can't have a conversation about the new and bring it to a close.
0:47.4	There's always something new, there's always something beautiful, there's always something
0:52.2	awaiting us, and that's why the future is such a wonderful place to travel to.
0:58.7	When people ask me what's your favorite place to travel, I need to change my answer, because
1:04.9	sometimes I'll say Tokyo, and sometimes I'll say London, and sometimes I'll say Mexico
1:09.6	City, sometimes I'll say East Ambul, but really my favorite place to travel to is the
1:15.8	future, because it's the one place that no matter how many times you go there, it's
1:22.8	never the same each time.
1:26.6	But I want to talk to you in these moments about another aspect of the new that I think
1:30.6	is so critical, and I find myself a little torn, because I think sometimes we undervalue
1:40.0	a specific aspect of the human dynamic, and for some reason whenever we enter the faith
1:45.8	journey, this conversation almost becomes absent along the way, because for just a few
1:52.2	moments I want to talk to you about the new mind, and I want to appeal to you that it's
1:58.5	time to bring an end to the dumb.
2:05.9	It's time to allow faith to be justification for ignorance and stupidity.
2:15.4	It's time for us to stop acting as if intelligence is not a gift from God, of God, by God, and
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