Tim King Leadership

Part Two Further to my last blog post and carrying on with the idea of Christians in politics, I must add that I firmly believe that it is right for young Christian leaders to start to get involved in politics. But politics starts at the grass roots level, in the community. It is there that any young Christian Leader who is shepherding a church congregation must start.   If they are interested in knowing what is going on in the local community then it is at local level that the politics start. Many Ideas come from grass root local community groups. These are past upwards to people on parish, town or city councils, they are debated, appraised and in some cases legislated. For the young Christian Leader it is these ideas that they will have more hope of influencing, if they are involved. Not long ago I was working with a local charity that was primarily concerned with looking after the mental wellbeing of young people, especially young women. During one staff room strategy ...

Part one. I love talking politics, I am not sure I am very good at it. I don’t have the analytical mind or ego that seems to go with being in politics. I also come from a denominational background that discouraged any involvement in politics or political debate. But that was a different time and a different place. The world of the young Christian leader has changed out of all recognition to my day. The challenges they face are very different. The voice of Christian reason and values, its morals and ethics have in many places become a whisper. The left wing secularists and the media openly discourage Christians from expressing their views, as being out of step with modern society. I think that Christians in Europe are more reluctant to engage in politics than our cousins across the pond. While we aspire to uphold freedom of speech, we do so very quietly, a whimper almost. In the United States freedom of speech is ingrained in the culture and in their founding documents, Ameri...

"There is too much month left at the end of my pay packet." Pastors pay and salaries has always been an emotive issue. In the past, this most contentious of subjects has pitted congregations and church boards against clergy and preachers. The war cry was “God you keep him humble and we will keep him poor.” Last week, when talking to a group of young pastors this question of salary and pay came up. Questions such as How much am I worth? Is it right for me to ask for a pay increase? Firstly, let me say that for many, times have changed. The average pay for pastors in the UK is £25000 per annum and in the USA the average is about $46000. Secondly, let us also remember that when looking at the issue of payment, church boards have to remember that the pastor or church leader sends his children to the same schools, his wife shops at the same shops and goes to the same doctors as the rest of us. There is always a cost to that, and pastor’s fork out the same amount of mon...