When You Lose To Win

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Pastor Erwin McManus brings a timely message this weekend in response to the unexpected mask mandate from LA county that led to Mosaic’s first Live Gathering being postponed.

From the book of 1 Corinthians, Pastor Erwin shares with us what it means to live out the apostle Paul’s words to ‘become all things to all people.’ Followers of Jesus can experience total freedom, even as they adapt their lives to share the message of Christ with others. Through letting go of our ego and surrendering a political stance to take up the mantle of the gospel, Pastor Erwin encourages everyone who follows Jesus to keep their eyes on the fight that matters.

This message brings incredible insight into how we all can live in such a way that ‘winning’ is not wasted on meaningless battles, but instead is reserved for the most important battle we face – the war for the human heart. This is a message you don’t want to miss!

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor of Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast.
0:13.5	Thank you for joining us today. I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you, and transforms you,
0:19.7	and that this is just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus. Enjoy the message.
0:25.6	So today my message is going to be a little bit different. Today I want to talk to you out of
0:35.0	what is just happening right now this week, and I'm in the middle of a lot of mixed emotions,
0:43.9	and I feel this moment in a really visceral way, so I just want you to stay with me,
0:49.7	because we were so looking forward to having our first live experience here at Mosaic in Hollywood,
0:57.7	live worship with our band MSC was going to lead us in worship. I was going to bring a message
1:03.0	this Sunday night. This room was going to be filled with people we love and new friends we have
1:10.6	not yet met, and we knew it was going to be an exciting, beautiful, extraordinary experience,
1:16.3	and we've patiently waited for over a year and a half to be able to do this again.
1:23.1	We've all faced a national crisis, a global crisis of a pandemic, of a quarantine,
1:30.1	and for those of us who live in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland,
1:35.4	New York, the ramifications and consequences of this pandemic and quarantine have even been
1:42.6	more severe than in so many other places across the country, and so we've been waiting. We've
1:47.8	been good neighbors. We've been a part of the community. We've cared for our city. We've been
1:52.5	really careful to be respectful and responsible as a community of faith, but we're finally going
1:59.6	to get to open. And then on Thursday, we get a ping. I don't know about you, but my emotional
2:07.3	response to the pings have changed dramatically over the last year and a half, and suddenly we saw
2:13.2	that the city of Los Angeles had determined to change the requirements to implement a mask mandate
2:20.9	on Saturday night at midnight. And even though the CDC was not recommending that, and even though
2:27.7	the state of California was not necessarily moving in that direction, our city was, and that had
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