Tim King Leadership

Manifesto: We Promise to do the following- with intent, when in Christian leadership: 1) People Matter. People are our purpose. People are not a means by which we can create our own ends. When we reach out to people they are our objective. 2) We will help people think. If people are our objective we will not get bogged down in the process. We will help people to think through our process in order to recognise our objective rather than just getting them to do and blindly follow. 3) Create great environments. We need to help people become great, not just fix their problems. We do this by creating great environments by which they can grow and build their relationship with God. 4) Create opportunities for initiative. People need to see and experience a spirit of excellence. They need to see opportunities where they can succeed rather than just avoid errors. 5) Be curious. As a leader you don't need to know everything even though a little knowled...

The opening lines of me new book: Pastoral Intentionality. A Manifesto for Christian Leadership. Study is rarely a substitute for life experience. I don't know about you but my Bible College never prepared me for pastoral ministry. They instilled in me doctrine and theology gave me a summary of church history. Taught me how to read and interpret the Bible and communicate it better, they gave me a run down on governance and practice, but they never once said to me this is what you are going to experience in your church. Nor did they say these are the types of problems and people you will come across and this is how you can handle the problems. Nor did they tell me how I could grow a successful church and develop great leadership teams. If you want to read more over the next few months watch out for my blog posts.

Parasites verses Symbiosis. For those of us brought up in Africa we know what tick bite fever is, I think they call it Lime's disease in the USA. It is a nasty little parasite that sucks the blood and leaves behind a nasty bite and a little later a fever and sickness that will leave you feeling really unwell. Whenever I think about the word parasite I always see it in a negative sense and think about that little tick that inhabits the African bush. "So why the sudden interest in ticks you may ask?" As Church leaders there is a great need for us to choose our words and the way we phrase what we say very carefully. This is one such occasion when a church leader used, I believe, the wrong words to put across a good idea.  The other day I was having lunch with a young leader who in all sincerity said to me that in church he felt there were two types of people, those who were parasitic in their relationship or those who had a symbiotic relationship with...