Mosaic MSC’s
MARIAH McMANUS
// Mission, Music, & Ministry
By Doug Doppler
Whether
you’re
passionate
about
DNA, as saying… “Heaven is not just something only what it means
leadership, finding the voice of your Church, that we’re longing for and looking to, but that to worship, but also
or all of the above, this interview with Mosaic we can bring on earth. It’s not always about what it means to
MSC’s Mariah McManus is for you. Mariah’s a destination and getting caught up in where follow Jesus and
‘you get what you put in’ approach to ministry we’re going, but about pulling people to where love Jesus. It’s all shown in the language
is clearly paying the right kind of dividends. we are now. When people carry heaven with that we use, so we always use language that
them, it looks like and manifests as peace and can meet anyone where they’re at, and you
kindness to others.” don’t have to have a huge knowledge of the
We had the pleasure of talking with Mariah the
day that Heaven, the latest Mosaic MSC album
Bible to understand the character of Jesus.
dropped. Filled with great songs and a message As a Church, Mosaic is filled with lots of new that you don’t need a thesis in religious studies believers. What is your approach for helping I think that’s really important because a lot of
to understand, this album serves as a powerful people connect the dots between the message times we can write things that need a lot of
backdrop for Mosaic’s first headlining tour… of Jesus and the thing that God has already context and we don’t have the time to give that
deposited in them? context when someone hasn’t yet met Jesus.
[WM] Mariah, thanks for joining us and
congratulations on the release of Heaven!
[Mariah McManus] Thank you!
We want to make sure our lyrics and what we’re
[Mariah] Yeah, definitely. I think for Mosaic trying to say about God is easy for everyone to
specifically, when we decided that we wanted understand, even if you haven’t met Jesus yet.
music to be a part of our Church story, it wasn’t
because there’s not enough worship music in [WM] You’re not just a worship leader, you’re
[WM] The concept for the new album is about the world. There are so many amazing worship also a Worship Pastor. Can you tell us about
experiencing heaven, now and today, and not leaders and Churches and worship teams that your pastoring style and some of the biggest
after we die. In your latest bio, you’re quoted we get to follow in the footsteps of. Specifically, wins you’ve had leading your team?
in our Church’s heart, it felt like our mission was
to give language to that space of just knowing
and just learning about God.
It comes with being in Los Angeles, and being
in a city that really is just finding Jesus for the
first time. A lot of people in our congregation
are just learning what it means to worship. Not
[Mariah] Yeah, for me, I love teams. I love
more than anything being a part of something,
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being a part of something that’s on so many
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