Matchmaking to a new level
Kara Powell | Jul 29, 2010
These days I’m reading Eric Michael Bryant’s book, Not Like Me. Eric oversees the leadership team at Mosaic in Los Angeles, a church known for many things, one of which is its senior pastor, Erwin Raphael McManus. I’ve had coffee with Eric a few times and thoroughly enjoyed getting to know him and understanding his heart for ministry.
In Eric’s book, he covers so many important topics related to ministry in today’s culture - ranging from “Much Sex in the City” (great chapter title) to how to Love our Neighbor.
Eric describes himself as a matchmaker. His church is over 80% single and he enjoys the chance to connect people with each other. And then he takes matchmaking to a new level by writing:
“When you have a good marriage, you want everyone to experience that amazing relationship. The same should be true in our relationship with Christ.”
What a great way of looking at a deeper kind of matchmaking. I’ve never thought of it before but I love how Eric’s heart is grounded in the type of real life - both eternal life as well as a much better life in the present - found through getting to know Jesus.
Well done, Eric. Can’t wait to keep reading.
Kara Powell, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI), the founder of the TENx10 Collaboration, and the Chief of Leadership of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. Named by Christianity Today as one of “50 Women to Watch,” Kara speaks regularly at national parenting and leadership conferences, and is the author or co-author of a number of books including Faith Beyond Youth Group, 3 Big Questions that Change Every Teenager, Faith in an Anxious World, Growing With, Growing Young, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family, Sticky Faith Curriculum, Can I Ask That?, Deep Justice Journeys, Essential Leadership, Deep Justice in a Broken World, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World, and the Good Sex Youth Ministry Curriculum.
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