Tim King Leadership

Advice to Baby Boomers Get Active. Over the last few weeks I have thought much about what churches need to do to help baby boomers who for whatever reason may feel left out or feel that they are no longer relevant in the church. Somehow they feel their ministries are no longer needed within the church. Well I have being praying much about this and feel that God has given me a direct word to those baby boomers that feel this way. 2 Tim 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of hands. 2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is God breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so the people of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. I believe that as we get older we need to do three things. 1) INSPIRATION : We need to inspire. Our lives should be inspirations to the next generation of people who are starting on the journey of their Christian walk. God has n...

What to do with noisy baby boomers. Since my last blog Elephants in the Sanctuary I have had more opportunity to think about and have conversations with people about what to do with baby boomers in the church. Many of these baby boomers - who are part of vibrant contemporary churches, feel that they have somehow come to the end of their usefulness and feel -that in the great move of God that these churches are seeing, that they are somehow being left behind. Here are some facts that I have found: ·          Nearly all the mega church senior leaders around the world are in fact baby boomers, that is those born between 1946 and 1966. C3, Hillsong, Willow Creek, Saddleback to name but a few. ·          All these churches have vibrant youth programmes and use contemporary music to attract   youth. ·          Reaching the next generation ...

 Here is a short extract from my new book, enjoy: Effective, strategic vision plans. The vision of the church and the mission or strategic vision plan are two sides of the same coin, you can't have one without the other. A leader who is constantly talking about the vision from the pulpit, the leadership meetings and every other opportunity that arrives, does not help in its development. There has to be action. Therefore the vision plan itself needs to be; attainable, flexible, clear and communicable.   It is attainable in so much as it is realistic and future focused in its thrust. If we use again our example "To raise up the next generation for Jesus" we see immediately that it is futuristic in its focus and is realistic. This as opposed to the vision statement by a small church that says "seeing a billion people come to a saving knowledge of Jesus in the next ten years." While this statement is futuristic, the question asked is it realistic to e...