Tim King Leadership

Five Further Results on Healthy Churches. There was such a great response to my health check blog and the healthy church results that I went looking through my archives and found the following 5 categorisations that I found were synonymous within healthy churches both big and small. 1.   In all churches visited, fellowship was both strong and warm. Both regular congregation members and visitors were made welcome, felt welcomed. Visitors were made to feel as though they were part of something vibrant and vigorous. They were greeted in the parking area, welcomed enthusiastically at the door and invited to sit near the front of the auditorium. After the service people took time out to speak to them, they felt that people in the congregation were really interested in them as people. Over 80% of congregation members attended a mid week home group. Over 45% were involved in some other sort of ministry within the church. 2. All churches had   deep and meaningful ...

Following my last blog. Here are a few conclusions that resulted from the health checks that I have conducted.. 1.       A healthy growing church is always willing to try new models for ministry in an effort to make disciples of Christ. 2.       Leaders of healthy growing churches always give permission to people within the church to conduct ministry and even make mistakes for the sake of winning the lost for Christ. 3.       Leaders of healthy growing churches always encourage full participation in ministry by any and all in the congregation while recognizing that the primary role of the pastor is for leadership, teaching, and facilitating such ministry. 4.       A healthy growing church never allows those with greater than normal pastoral needs to hold and demand the attention of the church and/or pastor for any longer than possible. 5.       A h...