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		<title>Insights From a Friend at Work</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2007/01/20/insights-from-a-friend-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re been following the story of Crossroads Church, you&#8217;re familiar with our vision to be the church for the portion of our population that has forsaken all things &#8220;church.&#8221;  These are people who would be out of place in a &#8220;normal&#8221; church &#8212; even one as dynamic and open as some truly are. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking it to the streets</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/12/01/taking-it-to-the-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the goals of Crossroads Church is to be able to take the church to the people, not just wait for the people to come to the church.  We do that by being ministers at our jobs, at school, in coffeeshops, etc.  Jesus regularly held meetings where the people were.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you tired of?</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/11/10/what-are-you-tired-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are tired.  They&#8217;re tired of working for unappreciative bosses (supervisors, teachers, pastors, etc.), tired of wasting time on repetitive tasks, tired of having to work a job to make a meager living.  People are tired of the way things are &#8212; and they wish things could change.
I&#8217;ve had the chance to talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three months in. . .</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/10/19/three-months-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

It&#8217;s been a little over three months since my wife and I stepped down from our ministries at Mesilla Park Community Church to help plant the new church in Las Cruces.  I&#8217;ve included the text from a newsletter article I submitted for Mesilla Park&#8217;s new monthly newsletter to get everybody up to speed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/09/25/coffee-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this from Milagro&#8217;s coffee shop in Cruces &#8212; my first try at posting to the Blog from my Palm handheld.  Coffee has become an important element of our new church.  It gets us going in the morning, it gives us something to do in the evenings when we meet as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re goin&#8217; a plantin!</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/06/18/were-goin-a-plantin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The "Emerging Church"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mesilla Park Community Church (MPCC) announced last Sunday (6/11/06) that the church is going to branch out in two areas &#8212; church planting and multi-site churches.  This is part of MPCC&#8217;s vision to double the lives we reach every five years.  This will hopefully meet an urgent need in our community &#8212; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Like Jazz (Was: &#8220;Read any good books lately?&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/01/28/read-any-good-books-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/01/28/read-any-good-books-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a long reading list sitting on the shelf next to by bed for about two months now.  I don&#8217;t get too many opportunities to get lost in a good book these days &#8212; usually just a few minutes before I fall asleep at night.  However, I am slowly making it through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God, Guru, or Grapefruit?</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/01/18/god-guru-or-grapefruit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/01/18/god-guru-or-grapefruit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eutychus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The "Emerging Church"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by giving my apologies to C.S. Lewis and his fabulous essay in &#8220;Mere Christianity&#8221; (synopsis here) &#8212; not to mention Josh MacDowell.  These days, spiritually-minded people seem to want to lump Jesus into one of these three categories.  Of the three, the Guru crowd is certainly growing by leaps and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church, Baptism, Missions, and My Covenants</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2005/10/04/church-baptism-missions-and-my-covenants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2005/10/04/church-baptism-missions-and-my-covenants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Email</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;rawbbie&#8221; writes:
I have recently moved to Las Cruces, that&#8217;s not included in my profile. I&#8217;m actually from Farmington. I left a great church when I moved down here, one that I chose with much prayer and agony. Now I&#8217;m chosing a new church with much prayer and not yet any agony but it will soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Elements of Group Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2005/09/29/the-four-elements-of-group-identity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2005/09/29/the-four-elements-of-group-identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Email</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The "Emerging Church"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Justin writes:
&#8220;Here is something from one of my ethnomusicology clases. It&#8217;s is a model (by a man named Ian Collinge) is from a discussion board from one of my classes. We were discussing &#8216;heart music&#8217; and whether it was a good idea for people in Africa to learn Chinese or Brazilian worship songs, as some [...]]]></description>
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