Tim King Leadership

The Leader sets the culture. Whether we like it or not the Senior Leader of a church is the one that should be tasked with setting the cultural tone of the church, its vision mission and core values are all paramount to this. What is church culture? Church Culture is the outworking of the Senior Leaders vision and philosophy on how to move the church forward and accomplish what they feel is God’s mandate for that particular church and community. I have said before that I have a Holistic view of leadership. I believe that ministry builds people but leadership grows churches. I believe that the leader of a church should have a calling, a vocation, a vision and a ministry an ability to lead. But I also believe that a leader should have a stable home life a supportive wife/husband and family. That the leader should stay fit through regular exercise, they should eat healthy foods and last but not least they should have a fresh and vibrant spiritual life. Therefore a large overwei...

Stress is not Burnout. Very recently I found myself having coffee with some church leaders and discussing stress and burnout. There appeared to be the idea that stress and burnout was one and the same thing. Let me say right here right now they are not. In talking with these church leaders I could also detect signs of burnout in each and every one of them, though thankfully none of them were in my opinion burnt out.   We all experience stress; it is possible to live a life without stress. There is such a thing as good stress – a sense of joy and fulfilment, that feeling of achievement. There is also bad stress (distress) those extreme negative pressures that intrude into our lives -the illness of a loved one, financial stress, the stresses that our children put us through- especially in their teenage years. The stress of running and building a large church has its own particular types of stresses. I believe that the vast majority of great church leaders I have met who ha...