Quotes from Erwin McManus

If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.

If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.

God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.

We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.

To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

We can't change history, but we can create the future.

I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and embraced regardless of differences.

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.