Tim King Leadership

#Agenda 3 Increasing your leadership Capacity. What is my agenda? I want to see Christian leaders be the best that they can be, and see real growth in their churches. One way they can do this is by increasing their leadership abilities and skills. I like what John Maxwell calls “the law of the lid. "In order to increase our effectiveness we need to increase our abilities" [1] In other words I believe that one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor. Church leaders must learn to continually assess where they are in relation to their skills. If they are weak in one area, they can gain knowledge in it in order to grow. The key thing here is awareness—I’m not suggesting that we must become experts in everything. For example, during my business days, I was aware that I was not an accountant or a bookkeeper. Therefore, I hired people to do those things for me. However, I still needed to know how my money was spent and on what. I learnt through financial management courses to ...

#Agenda 2 Engage in Strategic Planning What is my agenda? My agenda is to help Pastors and Christian Leaders strategise and plan for the future I make no apologise for this. I am amazed by the number of church leaders I meet who don’t know how to strategically plan. Sadly, strategic planning is not something normally taught at Bible college. A few church leaders can tell me what they want for their churches right now, and some can tell me their plan for the next twelve months. However, most leaders I’ve met do not know where they want their church to be in three to five years’ time, and even fewer would have a plan for the next ten years. “God will take care of that,” they often say to me. Other leaders try to plan, but they don’t understand the concept or the detail required. They may find that they do not have the training or organizational skills to maintain a healthy, large church. They use a “pay-as-you-go” type of leadership. Then there are leaders who realize the...

It's all about people and the Gospel of Christ. I was asked the other day by a pastor, what my agenda was, in answer I related the following story; In 1982, I had the privilege to visit my friend Gary at Christ for the Nations Institute Bible college, in Dallas, Texas. This was my first trip to the United States, and I was excited to see how the college operated. I had heard such good reports, and in comparison, my own college had been dead, dull and boring. One evening at a youth meeting, the leader stood up and said, “Let’s sing the cockroach song.” Laughter erupted, and music started. With great gusto, the young people (about 1,500 of them) sang these words:             “They rush on the city, they run on the walls, for great is the army that carries out God’s Word.” It struck me afresh in that moment that the church is purposed to be a vast army advancing rapidly and taking ground with direction and ...