Why This Matters: Generosity

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Why is living a life of generosity so important? In part two of his new series, ‘Why This Matters,’ Pastor Erwin McManus emphasizes the impact generosity has on our souls, as well as on others around us.

From Proverbs 11, he teaches us that generosity helps posture our hearts. It helps us to be open to what God wants to pour into our lives and how to hold loose what is already ours, so what we own doesn’t own us. Pastor Erwin shares a beautiful story of God providing an essential gift for him and his wife, Kim, exactly when they needed it. He reminds us that though the ‘prosperity gospel’ is misguided, God truly wants our lives to prosper. As we are generous, we are refreshed, healed, and restored.

Tune into this powerful message to learn how to make an incredible impact through generosity.

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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.
0:25.2	I was one of those people that did not grow up in church. I had no background in Christian
0:32.6	entity, never seen a Bible in my entire life. And so when I began my faith journey, there are so many
0:37.3	things that now I was being informed that should be a part of my life, practices I should take on
0:42.8	disciplines. I needed to develop. And frankly, a lot of those things were so strange to me. They
0:48.7	were in some ways a little bit intrusive. They were causing me to rethink my values, my habits,
0:58.0	my practices, and the first one was just the whole thing about church. Now when I came to faith,
1:04.8	it was in the context of church life. It was around so many people who were followers of Christ,
1:11.4	and I was invited to this church in Orlando, Florida, and it was my mom and my sisters and my brother
1:18.3	were going, and I was watching them interact with these people known as Christians, and begin to
1:25.5	talk about the possibility of faith. And I was pretty skeptical looking from the outside in, and
1:31.8	yet suddenly when I choose to cross on a faith and to trust Jesus in my life, now I'm told
1:37.8	that I should be a church every single week. I had no idea churches met every single week. I didn't
1:43.7	know that all over the world, there were people who call themselves Christians who made their
1:49.2	practice and life to get up on Sunday morning, to get up on Sunday morning, and go to church. Now,
1:55.5	you have to understand this was incredibly intrusive because I grew up loving football. Every Sunday,
2:02.5	it was National Football League Day. Sunday was about watching football, and now I'm supposed to
2:08.8	make a huge shift in my life where I have to go to church and can't get up and watch the NFL,
2:15.9	and then on top of that, I was in college, and I started playing soccer on the college team,
2:20.9	and a lot of our matches were on Sundays, and suddenly now I'm being told, well, you're a new
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