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	<title>THE CURRENT - Leading the Following Way</title>
	
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		<title>The Circles Jesus Drew</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As churches endeavor to find more effective and fulfilling ways to engage people in ministry, the team approach is one that also fits the renewed clamoring for community within churches today. Such an approach seems more conducive to experiencing church as an organism as opposed to an organization. Gilbert Bilzekian describes it this way: &#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Through YOUR Gethsemanes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/robertcrosby/?p=613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching a 3-D movie without 3-D glasses is a bland and boring experience. Looking at your life through the wrong lens can be the same way. Without the proper lens, the picture is flat, the colors confusing and the characters lifeless. However, the moment you look through the right lens, the images come to life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dash to Your Disney Dreams – Watch this video!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/robertcrosby/?p=610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This young man will dash your &#8220;Disney Dreams&#8221;! Give it a look and let me know what you think. Have we been fed a set of pipe dreams by Disney? And, has it contributed to the Millennial Generation being dubbed the most entitled Gen in American history?]]></description>
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		<title>The #1 Essential for Your Ministry Team.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/robertcrosby/?p=604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Trust is probably the most oft-mentioned and common ingredient within great ministry teams. Experts from all fields of team building agree on this team essential. No matter what the team ingredient or value is that is being discussed or developed, they really all have their roots in trust or team trust. For example, honesty is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite Dorothy Sayers Quote.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/robertcrosby/?p=595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Quote: &#8220;The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore &#8211; on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have very efficiently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephant-Hunting in 2013.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/robertcrosby/?p=591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When an elephant is in the room, hunt him down … but be careful and be prayerful. We have all experienced those times in discussions with our friends over coffee or over the phone where the “elephant” shows up … haven’t we? Or it may be right in the middle of a staff or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Can Shut You Down … If You Let It.</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/robertcrosby/2012/12/it-can-shut-you-down-if-you-let-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/robertcrosby/?p=586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The best “insurance policy” you can have to guard you from discouragement is friendship. Discouragement pulls us away from the thing we need most in life – relationships and friendships. When discouraged we tend to pull away from God and from people. Without friendships, those discouragements can tear you down and hold you back in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theology and Waffles!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter was excited. Driving home from work with dad several years ago, my 4-year-old was eager to tell me of her joy. “I’m so excited, Dad. ‘Know why?” “No, Sweetheart. Why?” “’Cuz Papa and Granma are coming to see me tomorrow and they’re going to bring me a surprise. I can’t wait to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Following Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/robertcrosby/?p=573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have come to a big decision. The title of my blog is changing as of right now! It is changing because I am changing and recognizing that there is a great need in the church today to redefine “leadership.” Too often we as pastors, leaders and Christian educators (me included!) have bought into corporate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As a Lover or Theorist? – Reading the Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you read your Bible – as a theorist or lover? First and foremost, as a student/scholar or a eager pursuer? Chris Webb, President of Renovare, challenged me recently to rethink how I read my Bible. He points out in his new book, The Fire of the Word: Meeting God on Holy Ground (IVP), [...]]]></description>
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