Erwin Raphael McManus

Erwin Raphael McManus, 2019

Erwin Raphael McManus (born August 28, 1958 in El Salvador ) is an American Baptist pastor of the Mosaic Church in Los Angeles , teacher and author with Salvadoran roots.

Life

McManus was born Irving Rafael Mesa-Cardona in El Salvador. His family soon emigrated to the United States and he was raised in Florida . His mother remarried in the United States and took the name McManus. McManus graduated from the University of North Carolina , where he received his bachelor's degree; he received his Masters from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth .

After graduating, he began church planting among the poor in the city of Dallas . Around 1990 he was deployed with his brother Alex to advise and renew existing church leadership teams. In 1993 he moved to Los Angeles to pastor the Mosaic Church . He also maintains a network of leadership, and he works at Bethel Seminary as a teacher of future research . He is the senior pastor of Mosaic Church, which includes four local wards in Pasadena , Hollywood , Pomona, and downtown Los Angeles. He founded the Mosaik-Allianz, an association of churches that are breaking new ground in church development. He leads the "Origins" conference, which takes place annually in the Mosaic Church.

McManus has spoken in over 30 countries and introduced and disseminated his innovative approaches to community building in films, articles and magazines. In 2011, he spoke at the Willow Creek Community Church's annual Global Leadership Summit , founded by Bill Hybels . McManus also works with secular psychological and sociological methods such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Gallup Strengths to analyze and change the entrenched behavior patterns of people and the rigid leadership styles in Christian churches. He also founded Awaken , a group of artists, poets and filmmakers to bring creative people together and develop and realize their potential. Because of his unconventional thoughts and approaches, he is counted as part of the emerging church movement. He believes that the traditional Christian churches must be given up and Christianity as a world religion and power factor destroyed in order to create space for a new, unspent Jesus movement.

McManus is married to Kim, they have two children of their own and a foster daughter.

Works

bibliography

• Live God's dreams. Departure for a sacred adventure. SCM R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal, 2004. ISBN 978-3-417-24474-8 (Original title 2002: Seizing Your Divine Moment. Dare to Live a Life of Adventure )
• An unstoppable force: Church that changes the world. Gerth , Asslar, 2005. ISBN 978-3-8659-1057-8 (Original 2001: An Unstoppable Force. Daring To Become The Church GOD Had In Mind )
• Go wild! Stop being a good Christian. 2005. ISBN 978-3-417-24484-7 (Original title 2005: The Barbarian Way. Unleash The Untamed Faith Within )
• Rise from the ashes. How our faith takes wings. SCM R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal, 2006. ISBN 978-3-417-24489-2 (Original title 2003: Uprising. A Revolution of The Soul )
• Stand Against The Wind. Awaken The Hero Within. 2006
• The way of the warrior. The Jesus Strategy: An Ancient Path to Inner Peace . Herder , Freiburg 2020. ISBN 978-3-451-38921-4 (Original title 2019: The Way of the Warrior: An Ancient Path to Inner Peace )

Discography

• Go wild! Audio book. SCM and ERF , 2006. ISBN 978-3-86666-013-7
• Crave. Music. Hänssler , Holzgerlingen, 2008. ISBN 978-3-29095-124 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Raphael McManus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Erwin Raphael McManus in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Homepage of Erwin McManus
• Mosaic Church website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://mosaic.org/
2. ↑ http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/erwinmcmanus.htm
3. ↑ http://erwinmcmanus.com/
4. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/24712.Erwin_Raphael_McManus