Why The Church Matters

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Every single week, we send a new message across the world. Everything we do here at Mosaic is made available to everyone in the world for absolutely free. Incredible people who give generously and sacrificially to make this possible. Go to mosaic. org give Become a Part of our support system, become one of our partners.

The church matters because it's how God brings us together. If your spirituality is simply a way for you to avoid human connection, it's not very spiritual. The only thing you need to believe in God is to see God for who he really is. In the church, I am a mess. I am imperfect. Calling me hypocritical is just an upgrade. I'm just working through all the brokenness of who I am. Jesus established the church so that we wouldn't do life alone. It's through the church that God brings us together. How many of you would call yourself an introvert? Raise your hand. A huge part of your spirituality has to be you learning how to walk alone with God. You cannot fully experience who God is outside of community. Experience God more fully through the church. When you get around a lot of people with destructive characteristics, you become a destructive human being. But if you can get around people who are compassionate, you start becoming compassionate. There's something that happens in community that changes you.

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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.
1:43.3	It's always challenging to talk about a topic that actually doesn't really matter to people and you have to convince them that it
1:46.0	should matter. Today is one of those days. I want to talk to today about why the church matters.
1:54.9	And for most of us, the church is supplemental. I don't mean that you don't take it as something valuable and significant,
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