Tim King Leadership

What to do with Baby Boomers? One of my greatest passions is to see churches succeed and grow. I love church to feel vibrant and full of get up and go. I love churches that have plans and strategies that help it grow and be relevant in their own particular communities. However I do get a little frustrated with some of those fast growing contemporary churches because I think they miss the point when building church. Let me explain. I have come across quite a few churches that call themselves modern and contemporary and are growing yet there is a small number of their congregation that feel left out of the grand scheme of things.   The baby boomers the 45-60 year old. They feel as though they are no longer relevant and feel that their own particular usefulness has come to an end. Why is this? because all the programmes, music and focus is on reaching the young. Churches that just concentrate on young families and the under 18 age group, because they want to reach the nex...

Christian leaders and their friends.                 Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such     respect  is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. - Mark Twain Once again let us dive down into the deepest rabbit warrens of my thought patterns and see if we can come to the surface with anything that resembles sense or logic. The questions I have been asking myself lately is does familiarity really breed contempt? How does this relate to Christian Leadership? It has been drummed into me from the very early days in pastoral ministry to my days as a management trainee not to become too familiar with my congregation or those that work for me. Because by doing so people will lose respect for me and treat me with contempt behind my back. In the dictionary the word contempt means 'an act or mental attitude or ...