Tim King Leadership

I am your servant not your slave . Someone once said that your attitude determines your altitude. One of those feel good, fuzzy sort of statements that church leaders sometimes make at conferences to get a cheer form their audience that precedes a pep talk from the word of God. It is not a statement that I would use but there is something in this idea of attitude. If we do not have a positive attitude in how we approach church growth for example can result in its success or failure. Likewise how we are viewed and view others can also determine our attitude. Why it is then, for some, the success or failure of a senior church leader is based on whether they are pastoral or not? How many people do they counsel? How many of the congregation do they visit? Do they regularly pray for the sick and do they visit the hospital? Are missionaries being supported? Is the Sunday school and Youth programmes being run properly? Is their preaching of good quality and how many people are th...

Preaching love, life and purpose. How and what we should preach is very important to any aspiring senior church leader. It is extremely important to get the words right or the central theme of our message will be lost. We, as strong successful leaders are here to first and foremost tell people that God loves them and that he sent his only son to die on their behalf in order to restore the relationship with him. Our words are to encourage, edify and exhort. We are what we think, so preaching life and purpose gives people direction a future and a sense of belonging in an ever fragmenting world. Before I deal with the positive aspects of preaching let me give you two true examples of really bad preaching: Quite a few years ago I was transferred by my company-for a brief period, to another city and was looking for a church to call home while I was there. I went to a church that had a congregation of about 150 but had been much bigger. The senior pastor rarely preached lea...

  Church is a reflection of the senior leader’s story. The church itself, that physical entity, the bricks and mortar that we seem to invest so much in, will reflect who we are and what our story is. Let me explain. If our church building is old, run down and in need of repair or a fresh lick of paint, then this presents the image that we are old run down and of no use to anyone. If we are a pew and hymn book church then what we may be saying to many is that we are people of tradition and have little or no desire to engage with today’s society. Or we may be a church that has a data projector, guitars and drums and a sound system and even some rudimentary stage lighting, but still sing songs and play church music of ten or fifteen years ago. What are we saying to people? Are we saying that we have found our niche our fellowship and don’t need to learn anything new or engage with anybody. Are we saying that we have arrived? I believe, that the way we present ourselves...