Tim King Leadership

Five Reasons why churches grow. The simple answer to the question above is that GOD DOES DO BIG. But the question I am constantly asked by small church leaders is; why do I have to be big? Why can’t I have a small successful church? On the face of it these are two very valid questions. But the questions are in my opinion a deflection of what is going on under the surface. There is often on the part of these church leaders an inability to grow anything. They don’t know how to, that is why you get silly statements like “We have quality in our church not quantity” my question then is why can’t you have both? If your church is 50 strong in a community of 250000 and you have been in the area for 25 years, then put simply, you are not doing your job. Or you are not cut out for the job. (This is a real example) In the past decade I have had the opportunity to observe five large and highly successful churches in New Zealand and Australia and have had the opportunity to talk to the...

The Time out Bench. The great thing I love about the game of Basketball- besides the fact that all the players are taller than I am- is that they have a time out bench. During a game, as the coach sees a player lagging, he can take him out of the game for a rest, and put him on the bench, or if the coach wishes to change tactics during any given period, he can swap a player by putting a different player on from the bench. This way the coach gets the best from his players during any given game. The ebb and flow of the game continues and the benched player gets the opportunity to get back into the game at a later stage.   Most sports have a substitution bench, where players not called into the starting line up wait for their opportunity to make a difference to the game. In an earlier blog I wrote about stress and burn out in church leaders and what symptoms to look for. In this blog I want to discuss the idea of having a “Time out Bench” in our churches for the ministry ...