Tim King Leadership

It is that time of year again when many Christian Leaders and Pastors start to get stressed and rushed off their feet. Christmas Programmes are being launched. The nativity set has been repainted but is not fully dry, The donkey has gone lame and you have a rooster instead of a lamb. The church roof has sprung a leak and the Kids church leader has informed you that Joseph and Mary have come down with the chicken pox. Your wife has phoned to remind you not miss your youngest child's recital at the local school, to be honest you had forgotten. To top it all you haven't finished your Christmas morning sermon and are tempted to rehash a sermon from 5 years ago, hoping that it will get great reviews and that Mrs Jones who is 87 and never missed a service in fifty years, will not notice,-she will. A hundred other things need to be done and time is running out. But take a moment just to pause, breathe and think about the Christmas story and what you need to do during this s...

Someone once said that the greatest act of stupidity is to do the same thing over and over again getting the same result but hoping for a different one. Over the last few years this has been my problem, I have been stupid. I often tell Pastors and Christian Leaders to think outside the box but have not done so myself. I have tried to do the same thing over and over again, knowing what I am saying and offering is right and relevant but just not getting the results I am looking for.   It all started just over a year ago, I had a trip to Malaysia where I taught a master class on Emotional Intelligence. It was a fantastic trip and I enjoyed doing what I was doing, it was as though it was meant to be. This was my calling, or was it?  On my return to the UK I began to hit the same barriers of resistance with Pastors and Christian Leaders that I had experienced over the last 7 years. Who are you? What denomination do you belong to? What makes you think that you can tell me...