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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In a thought-provoking message from Pastor Erwin McManus, we discover that each of us are interpreters of life. Based on our unique experiences and beliefs, we translate the world around us. But are we interpreting life according to God's perception--or just our limited perspective?

In John chapter 9, we observe that Jesus' disciples were bewildered by the healing of a blind man. They were stuck on the reasoning for his blindness. Had he sinned, or was he dealing with the consequence of his parents' sins? Then, the blind man's community continued to question his healing and if it was truly him that was healed.

Pastor Erwin points out that all of the facts were clear: the man was blind before and now he could see. And though the blind man's experience spoke for itself, his healing disrupted everything the onlookers believed about God's ability to heal--and even more, his ability to heal on the Sabbath.

If your interpretation of life has always led you to doubt God's nature, this message will encourage you to open your eyes to the miraculous that is working in and around you.

This message is inspired by Artisan Soul, Erwin Raphael McManus' book that calls us to reclaim our creative essence as humans.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, I want to walk you me to the Mosaic podcast. I'm Pastor Erwin and I fell
0:12.8	McManus and just wanted to thank you for listening. In case you didn't know, I just released
0:17.4	a new book, it's called The Genius of Jesus, The Man Who Changed Everything. And you can
0:21.6	order it today at TheGeniusOfJesus.com.
0:24.6	Well, welcome to Mosaic. It's good to see you guys tonight. Erwin, in case you don't
0:29.8	remember me, and for the last few weeks we've been diving into the artisan soul. We've
0:35.7	been looking into a new way of seeing what it means to be human and understanding who
0:41.6	God is in relationship to us. And to go on this journey together, there's some basic
0:47.4	presuppositions you have to embrace with us. That every human being is an artist. That
0:55.2	every human being is creative. That we're all artisans and we have the essential tools
1:02.0	for the creative process. We have been given an imagination through which we can see and
1:08.7	dream and imagine things that no one else has perhaps ever seen or dreamed. And we can
1:16.7	materialize that imagination and we become materializers of the invisible. We become
1:22.2	creatives by our essence. And this is the way God designed it. He created you this way.
1:31.8	In the same way that bees create hives and ants create colonies, humans create futures.
1:37.8	He was God places an image of a person that you can become, of a life that you can live
1:44.1	of a world that you can create. And when we see that world and we imagine that world
1:49.3	and it compels us to courage, to sacrifice, to action, that dream is translated into reality.
1:57.4	It becomes the future, our future, the world's future. And as we enter into this creative
2:05.3	process and we decide to make our lives our greatest work of art, we realize that the
2:11.4	same process that is used to create a sculpture or a painting or a dance or song is the same
2:21.1	process that we must use when we decide to turn our lives into a work of art. And that
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