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	<itunes:subtitle>There is beautiful simplicity in the gospel.</itunes:subtitle>
	<itunes:summary>We have made the gospel complicated. There is a disconnect between the modern, emergent mega-church and surrounding culture. SHRINK the church exists to rethink how we &#34;do&#34; church, provide resources and laugh a little at ourselves along the way.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let the Rapture Not Happen Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 18:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every week, it seems like some fringe element of Protestantism is grabbing the spotlight and using it to do damage to the message of peace, forgiveness and love that is the Gospel. Somehow, the likes of Jim Jones, Harold Camping and Westboro Baptist Church have become the spokespeople for Christianity.]]></description>
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		<title>5 Things We Need to Learn from the Mormon Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have come to respect several things about the Mormon church as an organization and community. These characteristics are things I think the Christian church in America needs to take notes on.]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Suffer From Acute Church Center of the Universe Syndrome?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the outside world, leaders who suffer from ACCUS are sanctimonious dorks who no one likes to be around. Interactions with them feel like taking Star Wars Kid to prom. They are dismissed with smiles and nods but are completely oblivious to it.]]></description>
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		<title>The Spiritual Side of Bad Communication (and how to fix it)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Asolas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a leader, you own what goes on in your ministry or organization. If “mis-communication” happens, you are the only one who can fix it and prevent it from happening again. Simply giving it a broad label does nothing but invites dysfunction in for a second date.]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Dexter, God loves you.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Asolas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 30 years old, I am just now understanding something that was fed to me with animal crackers and fruit punch since I was 5 years old in Sunday School. God loves me. Completely, totally, unconditionally loves me. I don’t have to act a certain way, I don’t need to perform a certain way. There is nothing I can do that will make Him love me any less.]]></description>
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		<title>5 Resolutions for Every Church Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Year’s resolutions are so trendy that intentionally not doing them to make a statement has become trendy itself. That puts us back at square one, and so here we are making resolutions.]]></description>
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		<title>4 Reasons to Not Be a Worship Cover Band</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a big difference between being a worship cover band and a worship band who plays modern worship tunes with their own creative spin on them. I prefer the second one and here are four reasons why you should too.]]></description>
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		<title>[EDITORS CHOICE] Top 10 Christmas Movies Ever</title>
		<link>http://www.shrinkthechurch.com/2010/12/editors-choice-top-10-christmas-movies-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shrinkthechurch.com/2010/12/editors-choice-top-10-christmas-movies-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Asolas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love the real Reason for Christmas here at Stc, but we also get pretty geeked up for the other ones too. Cold weather, great food and gifts are just a few things we love about this time of year but the volumes of excellent Christmas films out there tie everything together. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hint Fiction: Church Communication</title>
		<link>http://www.shrinkthechurch.com/2010/11/hint-fiction-church-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Asolas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[hint fiction (n) : a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story]]></description>
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		<title>10 Ways to Tell If People Love Your Church More Than They Love Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Asolas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[church idolatry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a church leader, you can avoid creating a culture where people love the institution more than their Savior by always putting him front and center. This list is intended to make you laugh and cause you to think and diagnose the problem of church idolatry in your community.]]></description>
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