Tim King Leadership

Here is an extract from my next book;  I am looking at the idea of what is good relational leadership and how this will help us restructure or re-engineer a change process in a church. Enjoy and please feel free to comment.  The management of pastoral ministry verses the senior leadership paradox. Over the last few centuries the church has produced literally thousands upon thousands of Pastors. People who look after the flock, control the finances, organise meetings, people who control the ebb and flow of church life and solve every problem. Pastors are the people who maintain and manage the stability and consistency needed in the church. Over the last twenty years there has been a great deal of talk about leadership but little emphasis however has been put on good relational leadership.   Leadership is in fact the thing that created the organisation in the first place. Leadership establishes direction, puts the right people in the right place for the righ...

Revelation, Reaction and Relationship. Over the last few weeks I have been thinking about the experience of change. How people process change in their lives and how they ensure that change sticks, rather than revert to the same old same old. As a Christian leader I believe that change is seasonal. That God takes us through different seasons of our   lives and ministry cannot be in doubt. It is a time of frustration but also a time of blessing as we learn to hear and experience   what the Holy Spirit is saying to us. A new season always begins with a revelation. For Moses it was the burning bush, yet for his ancestor Joseph it was dreams that resulted at first in being thrown into a pit before being sold into slavery. In the New Testament for Saul it was the road to Damascus where Jesus made his presence known and set Paul on the road to great things. With revelation comes reaction, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes it is physical at others it is spi...