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“The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.”
“I had someone a month ago tell me at a campaign lunch that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. I think that that view is dissipating very, very fast.”
“The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.”
“When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.”
“The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.”
“Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.”
“There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.”
“Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.”
“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.”
“From the beginning, our community has been focused on people outside of Christianity. But that emphasis means that a lot of hard work is represented in every person who is baptized.”
“There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.”
“I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.”
“So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'”
“I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.”
“If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.”
“While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.”
“Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!”
“God has leveraged the human spirit to move in His direction, and all the material we need to bring a person to the realization that they were created by God actually already exists inside that person.”
“I became a Christian because I met God.”