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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Until you change your values, you will not change how you live your life. We need to recognize that everything in life will pull away at the relationships that we have. It's what we do to nurture those relationships that really brings meaning to our lives. I think one of the greatest gifts that we have as a community is to create community and provide community for those around us. Relationships are tough. Sometimes the greatest gift you can give another human being is to invite them to come with you and serve the world together. When two or more are gathered in my name, he says, I am there in the mist. The church has not been particularly helpful in the last few decades of helping people connect to God. Don't use all the problems in the church to be an excuse for an individualistic spirituality. When we're all alone, I can't always explain it. It has been with me for 50 years of my life. The difference now is that for decades, I just carried that inside of me alone. We all are just one thin breath away from feeling as if we're alone in the world.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Erwin McManus, this is the Mosaic Podcast. I'm going to thank you so much for joining us today and if you're one of our regular
0:14.3	listeners we love the fact that you join you with us and we pray that every
0:18.7	single message inspires you and helps you become the person that God created you to be.
0:23.0	Every single week we send a new message across the world
0:26.0	and everything we do here at Mosaic is made available to everyone in the world for absolutely free.
0:31.0	The reason we can do that is that we have incredible people
0:34.4	who give generously and sacrificed to make this possible and I want to invite you
0:38.2	to join us. If you're a ready giver, thank you so much. If this is something you've not yet done, I want to invite you to start doing that now.
0:45.5	Go to Mosaic.org slash gift and give a one-time gift or even beyond that, become a recurring giver here at Mosaic. And if you're one of those individuals who God has blood that What's really beautiful about Mosaic is that our biggest givers, our families who do not live here in Los Angeles,
1:05.8	but they are so committed to the message of Jesus going to the world that they support the work here
1:10.3	from Los Angeles to the ends of the earth.
1:12.6	And so I want to invite you again, go to Mosaic.org
1:14.6	slash Give, become a part of our support system,
1:17.1	become one of our partners, and more than anything else,
1:19.9	I want you to listen to the message,
1:21.5	allow Jesus to speak to you in a way that will change your life. So we continue in the book of Ecclesiasties moving through Solomon's journey, searching for meaning, trying to make sense of life.
1:50.0	And right away in the first three chapters he pretty much exhaust every different place
1:56.3	that we can search for some kind of fulfillment and meaning in life.
1:59.5	And of course he keeps leading us to these painful and ominous that ends.
2:06.5	And then in chapter 4, beginning in verse 4, he turns from almost a philosophical conversation of where meaning can be found to a very, very intimate and personal observation of his own experience of life.
2:25.0	Ecclesiasties for, beginning in verse four, he says,
2:29.0	and I saw that all toil and all achievements springs from one person's envy of another.
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