Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus

Erwin McManus, 2008.
Born September 28, 1958 (1958-09-28) (age 49)
Republic of El Salvador, Central America
Nationality Salvadoran, Naturalized American
Occupation Pastor, Author, Public Speaker
Spouse Kim McManus
Website
Erwin Raphael McManus

Erwin Raphael McManus (August 28, 1958) is an author, lecturer, pastor and leader[1] in the emerging church movement. McManus is the lead pastor of Mosaic Church, a Christian community in Los Angeles, California. He made his name first by speaking on Post-modernism (postmodernity, Postmodern Christianity), but also communicates on culture, change, creativity, and leadership.[2] McManus was named by Church Report[3] in January 2007 as one of the "50 Most Influential Christians in America."

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Born Raphael Sandoval Meza Cardona, McManus is a native of El Salvador. His family immigrated to the United States when he was very young and he was raised in Florida. Little information is available publicly about McManus' upbringing, his move from El Salvador, or the intervening years until his late teen years. Regarding the name, "McManus", "it is not an adopted name, it’s an alias and I made it legal ... My mom married someone who lived under an alias who was involved in 'creative underground economies' ... that’s how we ended up being called McManus." [4]

McManus earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina and his M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. Serving as a "church planter" in Dallas he began two congregations where he "worked among the urban poor"[citation needed]. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he, with brother Alex, were employed to replace "outdated" and "stagnant" church leadership teams with "younger" and "fresher" thinkers[citation needed]. He moved to Los Angeles in 1993 where he eventually took the pastor role at Mosaic Church. Since the 1990s McManus has been associated with the Leadership Network and he partners with Bethel Seminary as a lecturer and "futurist".

As Lead Pastor of Mosaic, McManus speaks at four Sunday services (all considered one church) in Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Chino Hills and downtown Los Angeles.[5]. He headed up the creation of the Mosaic Alliance, a loose association of like minded churches. [6] He also presides over the "Origins" conference held yearly at Mosaic. McManus was instrumental in organizing the "Rethink" conference saying "We need to know where things are going so we can get there first"[7] and he catalyzed The Barbarian Project internship, "The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity."[8]

Paid speaking engagements have taken McManus to over 30 countries [9] and his work is featured in numerous films, articles, and magazines across the US and internationally. He has recently appeared on the TBN program, Praise the Lord.

McManus has introduced various psycholigical personality metrics to the church such as the Myers-briggs type indicator and Gallup's Strengths Finder.[10] In Recent years he has also founded Awaken[11], a collection of poets, artists, film makers and humanitarians whose stated goal is "maximizing the divine potential" in every human being. [12]

McManus is married to Kim. They have two children Aaron and Mariah; and a foster daughter, Paty.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Doss, Yvette (January 2007). in Oscar Garza: Rebel With a Cross (in English). Los Angeles: Emmis Publishing LP, 67, 68. 
  2. ^ Doss, Yvette (January 2007). in Oscar Garza: Rebel With a Cross (in English). Los Angeles: Emmis Publishing LP, 69. 
  3. ^ Church Report
  4. ^ AssistNews Interview
  5. ^ Mosaic Services
  6. ^ Mosaic Aliance
  7. ^ Rethink
  8. ^ Barbarian Project internship
  9. ^ Erwin McManus Schedule
  10. ^ http://yelo.awaken.org/
  11. ^ Awaken
  12. ^ Awaken Human Potential

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