Dr. Robert Crosby

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First Year at Gordon-Conwell: 2025
Expertise: Pastoral Ministry, Pastoral Counseling & Soul Care, Leadership, and Team Building

Biography:
Dr. Robert Crosby serves as the president and CEO of Emerge Counseling Ministries, a nationally recognized organization that has served denominations, churches, pastors, and people in need for over fifty years. While providing licensed Christ-centered counseling to people from all walks of life, this ministry uniquely focuses on lifting the souls of those who lift the church by serving pastors, missionaries, and church leaders.

With a Doctor of Ministry degree from Gordon-Conwell and a PhD in Organizational Leadership from Regent University, Dr. Crosby has over thirty years of ministry leadership and higher education experience. In addition to teaching pastoral counseling and leadership, he has served as an inner-city youth pastor in Rochester, NY, lead pastor in the Boston area, and vice president of Southeastern University.

Dr. Crosby has authored several works, including The Teaming Church: Ministry in the Age of Collaboration (Abingdon), More Than a Savior (Multnomah), When Faith Catches Fire (Waterbrook), and The One Jesus Loves (Nelson). His writing themes focus on equipping people to come closer to God, their families, and the church. His research interests include team building, nurturing unity among cultures in the church, the global impact of the Hispanic church, spiritual formation, staying healthy in Christian leadership, and generativity—the value of lifting and equipping the next generation of leaders.

Dr. Crosby’s personal interests include asking great questions, running, the NFL, hiking, kayaking, history (especially the lighthouses of New England), and cooking meat on his outdoor smoker. He sees writing as a great pleasure and is working on a couple of fiction manuscripts.

He and his wife, Pamela, are proud parents of four adult children and six grandchildren. The Crosbys conduct conferences and retreats on church leadership, marriage, parenting, and soul care.

Degrees

• BA (Southeastern University)
• DMin (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
• PhD (Regent University)

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Publications List

• When Faith Catches Fire: Embracing the Spiritual Passion of the Latino Reformation. Random House: 2017. Co-authored with Samuel Rodriguez.
• The Will of a Man & The Way of a Woman: Balancing & Blending Better Together. Shiloh Press: 2016. Co-authored with Pamela Crosby.
• The One Jesus Loves: Grace is Unconditionally Given; Intimacy Must Be Relentlessly Pursued. Thomas Nelson: 2014. 
• The Teaming Church: Ministry in the Age of Collaboration. Abingdon Press: 2012.
• More Than A Savior: When Jesus Calls You Friend. Robert C. Crosby. Multnomah: 2011.
• More Than Rules – It’s a Relationship. Self-published: 2006.
• Conversation Starters for Couples. Focus on the Family: 2006. Co-authored with Pamela Crosby.
• Conversation Starters for Parents & Kids. Focus on the Family: 2006.
• Living Life From the Soul: How the Spirit Changes a Man From the Inside Out. Bethany House: 1997.