Why This Matters: The Church

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered why the church matters? In the first message of his new series, ‘Why This Matters,’ Pastor Erwin McManus explains why the church is essential to humanity. Through Ephesians 3:10-20, he challenges us to rethink the way we view the role and meaning of the church. Just like olympians challenge themselves to be the best in the world at their craft, Pastor Erwin challenges us to become the best version of ourselves. The church is the fingerprint of God and our lives are his creative canvas.

As the church moves together, the wisdom of God is revealed. As we fill in the spaces of each other’s weaknesses and contribute our own strengths, we become better together. Pastor Erwin encourages us that the best version of ourselves is found when we gather together.

If you need encouragement to step out of isolation and into community, check out this powerful new message.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor at Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast.
0:13.4	Thank you for joining us today. I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you, and transforms you,
0:19.5	and that this is just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus. Enjoy the message.
0:25.2	I don't know about you, but I was really hoping 2021 would be dramatically different than 2020.
0:31.9	That 2021 would sort of be the edge of sketchy year that erased everything we experienced in 2020.
0:38.5	It would begin to allow all the memories of 2020 to fade away. It would be a new beginning, a new year,
0:44.9	and everything would be better. But that's not exactly what has happened. 2021 has really been
0:52.2	an extension of 2020. It is 2020, part two, 2020, the sequel, 2020, the reprise that should not have
1:00.7	been made. And what's so fascinating to me is even things like the Olympics or the 2020 Olympics
1:07.7	in 2021. And if anything was a symbolic metaphor for what we're all going through, it was the
1:15.8	Tokyo Olympic Games. And that's a part of what I want to talk to you about over the next few weeks,
1:24.0	because when you go through a crisis in a moment, it can obviously just throw you off for a moment,
1:29.0	but then you weak calibrate and go back to the way everything was before. But when you go through
1:34.0	a long-term crisis, when you face a challenge that is extended, it actually begins to cause you to
1:40.8	reflect and to rethink why you're doing what you're doing. In fact, I think that's what's happened
1:47.4	over the last two years, is that so many people have basically asked the question,
1:52.0	does this really matter, or why am I doing this? Or do I really want this back in my life? And it
1:58.1	can be from so many extremes. There are some people who were in the race and they were working so
2:03.4	hard and incredibly successful and making all kinds of money. And the pandemic took that away from
2:10.0	them for a moment. And then when it was time to step back in, they thought about their own lives,
2:16.1	their values. And they decided not to go back. They decided that race wasn't the race they wanted
2:21.2	to be in. They basically asked the question, does this matter? And their conclusion was, no. And
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