Erwin McManus Quotes
Eight Quotes by: Erwin McManus My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst for the movement of Jesus Christ ... Some people are upset with me because it sounds like I’m anti-Christian. I think they might be right.
http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Mar05/Art_Mar05_09.html. Dated: 5th March 2009
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The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It’s pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, “Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fuelling this is something really ancient. That’s what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.
Sourced from an article: Interview by Relevant Magazine with Erwin McManus, ?In That Smoky Room? (Relevant Magazine) by . Dated: February 2009
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The way of Jesus is far too savage for their sensibilities {those who are “civilized”} … Why a reckless call to awaken the barbarian faith within us at the risk of endangering this great civilization we have come to know as Christianity? … It is time to hear the barbarian call, to form a barbarian tribe, and to unleash the barbarian revolt. Let the invasion begin.
Book: by Erwin McManus entitled: The Barbarian Way, pp. 15, 17. Published: 4th January 2009.
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Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don’t ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.
Book: by Erwin McManus entitled: The Barbarian Way p 114 Published: 4th January 2009.
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They {Barbarians} see Christianity as a world religion, in many ways no different from any other religious system. Whether Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, or Christianity, they’re not about religion; they’re about advancing the revolution Jesus started two thousand years ago.
Book: by Erwin McManus entitled: The Barbarian Way p 16 Published: 4th January 2009.
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When you begin to create the life of your dreams—or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you—you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
Book: by Erwin McManus entitled: Wide Awake: The Future is Waiting For You (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2008), p. 179 Published: 2008.
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The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. …One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.
Book: by Erwin Mcmanus entitled: An Unstoppable Force, p. 118 Published: 2001.
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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.
Book: by Erwin McManus entitled: An Unstoppable Force, p. 118 Published: 2001.
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