Submitted for your approval . . .
April 11, 2008
Azuza Pacific University
The Clause, "Mosaic’s Erwin McManus meets with students to answer questions about being a pastor" by Laura Jane Kenny, staff writer
http://clause.apu.edu/April%2011/news/article2.html
McManus became a Christian when he was twenty-years-old. One credit away from completing his major in philosophy, McManus changed to try to find something that would better fit his new lifestyle, even if he did not know what that fit was. He finished with a psychology degree and then decided to go to seminary at Southwestern Theological Seminary. He then shared his life journey and how he became the leader of Mosaic.
McManus talked about when he thought God wanted him to be a pastor. His wife and even his son told him that they did not think he should be a pastor. However, McManus felt a conviction. “Do you ever have a moment when you think, ‘This isn’t really one of those conversations you are and God are having. This is one of those moments where God is just God and he is saying this is what I want you to do and we will work out the details later,’”
McManus told a group of college students that he felt such a strong "conviction" to become a pastor that even his wife and son couldn't convince him not to become one.
Compare the version above to the story McManus told to a group of his adult peers one year earlier. . .
February 2007
Erwin McManus speaking at the National Religious Broadcaster's Conference REACH Feb 17-20,2007 in Florida. (Hard copy source: NRB Reach 2007, CD Rom) See also: Comment by Frank Loaiza - http://solidfoods.blogspot.com/2007/03/revisionist-history-of-church-on-brady.html
And I can tell you when I began this journey in L.A. fifteens years ago I was just an attender at Mosaic. It wasn't called Mosaic then, it had a different name. It was called The Church on Brady, which actually had a legal name of "First Southern Baptist Church of East Los Angeles (audience laughter). That's a beautifully relevant name, isn't it? (audience laughter) And I was just an attender there, and the pastor asked me if I would consider taking over the congregation–or leading the congregation. And he'd been there twenty-five years and I was very adamant and very clear
I have no desire to be a pastor. I wanted to do something meaningful with my life
(audience laughter). And I had the mission of Christ on my heart; I wanted to see the world reached for Him. And I, after examining the local church felt it was no longer a valid instrument to really bring cultural transformation.
For the skeptics in the audience, McManus retold this version of how he became the pastor of Mosaic during his own Awaken Conference held April 1 - 3, 2008; just 10 days before he spoke at Azusa Pacific University.
Source: Personal blog of Nathan Lyke
(see Tuesday, April 1, 2008) http://nathanlyke.com/blog/?p=95
Scary, isn't it?
Yvonne W.
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