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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

When you become a relational idealist, when you begin to believe in others, you're not free from wounds. Jesus was betrayed by a kiss, so don't be surprised when you are. And I can make the world better when I believe in people. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. When God believes in you, you start becoming what he sees in you. You have to actually learn how to celebrate with others. It's really, really easy to like people when they're doing poorly.

Last year when our company collapsed, I had so many people who liked me. It's so much easier to be a friend when that friend has a world that's falling apart. But when the world thins out, the world has to celebrate your success. This is what the economy of God is like. We like people when they are in the same condition as usual or worse. But we don't like it when people seem to get what they got by working less or got more than we got by not earning it. Why is it easier to celebrate your success when someone else has failed?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Erwin McManus, and this is the Mosaic podcast.
0:10.0	I want to thank you so much for joining us today.
0:13.0	And if you're one of our regular listeners, we love the fact that you join you with us,
0:17.0	and we pray that every single message inspires you and helps you become the person that God
0:21.8	created you to be. Every single week, we send a new message across the world. And everything
0:26.6	we do here at Mosaic is made available to everyone in the world for absolutely free. The reason
0:32.0	we can do that is that we have incredible people who give generously and sacrificially to make this
0:36.8	possible. And I want to invite you
0:38.2	to join us. If you're already a giver, thank you so much. If this is something you've not yet done,
0:43.6	I want to invite you to start doing that now. Go to mosaic.org slash give and give a one-time gift
0:49.3	or even beyond that, become a recurring giver here at Mosaic. And if you're one of those individuals
0:53.9	who God has
0:54.8	blessed in an amazing way financially, I want to invite you to become one of our partners here at Mosaic.
1:00.1	What's really beautiful about Mosaic is that our biggest givers, our families who do not live here in Los Angeles,
1:05.9	but they are so committed to the message of Jesus going to the world that they support the work here
1:10.1	from Los Angeles to the ends of the earth. And so I want to invite you again, go to mosaic.org
1:14.6	slash give, become a part of our support system, become one of our partners. And more than anything
1:19.2	else, I want you to listen to the message, allow Jesus to speak to you in a way that will change
1:23.8	your life.
1:40.3	Welcome to Mosaic 6 p.m. gathering, in this amazing?
1:47.6	Now I want you to know today we began our 1 p.m. gathering to create more space in here and we need more space in here. So what I need you to do is just sort of move toward the center.
1:55.7	If there's a seat that's empty, there's a human who belongs there.
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