Tim King Leadership

Leaders get you discipleship right. A number of months ago I sat with a pastor discussing his leadership Development programs and evaluating their success. He then asked me a question that on the surface seemed easy to answer but when I thought about it I saw that perhaps we as leaders were getting some things wrong. He asked; "Can you teach discipleship in a class room environment." The right answer to be really honest is NO. Firstly you need to choose those you want to disciple Identifying those you wish to Disciple.   Look for character—disciples must be stable and humble. They should be teachable and have integrity (for example, the local gang leader probably doesn’t fit into this category!). Look for passion—a disciple needs to be passionate about what they do and to do it with energy and drive. It doesn’t matter if they are passionate about something outside the church (motorbikes or rock climbing, for instance). So long as being passionate is in someone’s DNA...

Christian Leadership needs effective team leadership " No individual even a monarch- like CEO, is ever able to develop the right vision, communicate it to large numbers of people, eliminate all key obstacles, generate short term wins, lead and manage dozens of change projects and anchor new approaches deep in the organisations culture." [1] In other words major visionary change cannot be accomplished by one person alone no matter how large or successful their churches and leadership styles may be. In order to see changes take place in a church and these changes take root, - the way you see those taking root, there is a need therefore for the creation of an effective team. Jagelman makes the following observation; "I have realised that inflexible structures that are legally or traditionally difficult to change    hinder rather than protect the work of God....The absence of a stable and well thought through structure does not create freedom, it create...