Message #56359

[Boldhunter]

This "church" uses the name of Jesus and is deceiving THOUSANDS of TEENS and COLLEGE STUDENTS who think they are walking with our Lord. Please pray for them...

Wikipedia: Mosaic Church in Hollywood

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Transitional years
In October 1991, Erwin McManus was first introduced to The Church on Brady as the keynote speaker at Brady’s Spare Not Conference on World Evangelism. He was then invited to move to The Church on Brady and Los Angeles to transition into the role of Senior Pastor.

Early in 1994, McManus officially became Senior Pastor. Wolf then moved into the role of "Teaching Pastor" and simultaneously accepted a teaching position at Golden Gate Seminary in San Francisco.

Born in El Salvador, McManus had moved at an early age[citation needed] to the United States with his family. He brought 15 years experience as urban church planter[citation needed], evangelist, and speaker.

McManus built on the foundation set at Brady. Multi-media was the new tool in churches at the time. McManus encouraged use of these new tools making greater use of art and dance as weekly components of worship. Regular night-time services became part of the landscape.

A new name was sought with "Mosaic" being the accepted choice.[3] It was at this time that the Sunday night service was moved to the Club Soho, a nightclub in downtown L.A. (relocating several years later to the Mayan Theatre in downtown L.A.). Mosaic became a single church with multiple sites. In 2003 the property on Brady street was sold making Mosaic independent of land ownership.

§Mosaic today[edit]
Mosaic has been mentioned as one the "top 50 most influential churches in the nation"[4] and has approximately 60 nationalities in attendance.[5] In January 2012,[6] Mosaic started holding its worship services in Hollywood.[7] Associated Press called Mosaic a "hipster megachurch", describing it as a "congregation full of hip twenty-somethings who mostly work in the film industry... (more)