Tim King Leadership

I saw these stats on line and thought them interesting. In the West, this is the season for consumers and is the season to spend huge amounts of money on food and drink, on Christmas presents and puppies that may be abandoned after the festive season is over. My grandchildren get more fun out of the boxes and wrapping paper than they do with the contents. What is interesting though is that much of the earth’s Christian population; do not celebrate with the West in the obsession with consumerism. For them the celebration is not about feasting or buying huge amounts of Alcohol. Nor is it about presents and gifts or family stress and arguments. To them it is all about Jesus and what God has done for humankind. Take a step back this Christmas and focus on the real reason for this celebration. In the year ahead let us forget the stress that comes from life and reignite the passion many once had for that little baby born in a stable and placed in a manger. Jesus, Saviour of the...

Are old people irrelevant in today’s church? This question was posed to me in a Christian youth forum that I had been invited to attend. Part of my answer was to say that I believed that old people in the church were no more relevant or irrelevant than they are in secular society. However, in many western societies old people were seen as non-entities or rather as an unseen sector of the community. When challenged to explain I put it this way; The world is getting faster, faster broadband, new faster technology that is unintelligible to older people. The world of older people is a lot slower they are about face to face encounters with friend and people, they don’t like talking to a faceless corporation and when they do talk to a human that human lives in India or the Philippians. Today it’s about being part of a global citizenship rather than a vital and productive part of a village community. Older people are being bombarded by new political and social movements. They are be...