When McManus came to the Church on Brady, it was contemporary, following a 1980s model of ministry. In fact, it had been a leader in the contemporary church movement. But even though it was a contemporary church, it was time-locked in the 1980s. Los Angeles had moved into the future while Brady remained behind. Any church with fixed structure in a fluid environment will become outdated and irrelevant. What the church was calling “contemporary” wasn’t. So McManus began leading them into the future.
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