Pastor, Missiologist, Mobilizer…
By now everyone, or most everyone, is abreast of the news that WHO labeled the coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Soon after…
Continue reading → The Church and COVID-19: A Framework for How to Respond to the Coronavirus Crisis
Here are the last three shifts that need to take place in order to transition a country club church to a commissioned church. (Find original article…
Continue reading → From a Country Club to a Commissioned Church—PT 2
This article originally appeared on The Exchange with Ed Stetzer. Recently I had a two-part series (on The Exchange) describing features of a church being…
Continue reading → From a Country Club to a Commissioned Church—PT 1
Earlier this year, my family moved to Wheaton, IL. As we familiarized ourselves with the town it became apparent that their roads are a work…
Continue reading → Pastors, Church Leaders, and Churches: A Work in Progress…
This article originally appears on The Exchange with Ed Stetzer. Click here to access it. Disclaimer: I’ve never chased donkeys. I have been in a…
This article originally appeared on The Exchange with Ed Stetzer. You can click here for the original link. A couple weeks ago the Laxton house…
Imagine you have spent your entire life enslaved. Freedom seems unattainable, and hope is scarce. However, one day a strange man—a fugitive from Egypt—shows up…
This article originally appeared on The Exchange with Ed Stetzer. I have been involved at three country clubs in my life. The first CC was…
Continue reading → Your Church Might Be A Country Club If… (Part 1)
Disgusted…Outraged…Grieved. Those words describe the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 5 when he addresses news about sexual misconduct happening within the church at Corinth and…
I’ve been in leadership positions almost all my life. Leadership, for me, dates back to youth sports. However, over the past nineteen years my leadership…
Josh Laxton 