Tim King Leadership

This week I would like to give some insight into two areas that can be the making or the breaking of a church, delegation and decision making. These two things go alongside the need to rise up young effective leaders in our churches. Poor attitudes in these three areas are responsible for the lack of growth and the ineffectiveness of countless churches throughout the world. Delegation. When churches grow there is a need to begin to delegate responsibilities –those responsibilities that have for so long been kept close to the senior leaders chest. Delegation is not an easy thing to do. Leaders can often feel that they can do the job better that giving up a particular area, that they   may feel could be too much for the subordinate to handle. Leaders can often feel insecure; the feeling that subordinates can do or will do a better job. Leaders may feel that their own weaknesses will be exposed or that they are not showing the congregation that they are earning their keep. ...

I sometimes hate the word communication. “I know what I mean, why should I have to express it differently to others.” Unfortunately not everybody knows how you work or operate, hence the need to communicate accurately and succinctly not only in language and theory but understanding as well. Communication has just as much to do with speaking, as it does to understanding the perception of the listener. In other words people do not just listen to what we say but respond to how we feel about them. When you read the war time speeches of the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, you can see that he expressed in his words the feelings of the British people. He used words that epitomised how everybody viewed Mr Hitler. He did not only speak to his listeners minds, but to whom they were- the unconquerable British people. I think that I am a great communicator, my wife thinks differently, sometimes we will discuss a point for hours only to come to the conclusion that we both agree o...

I am always amazed at the many church leaders and pastors that I meet, who do not know how to strategically plan. -Strategic Planning is not something normally taught in our Bible Colleges. A few can tell me what they want for their churches right now and can tell me what will happen in their churches over the next twelve months. But, further than that, they certainly do not know where they want the church to be in 3 or 5 years time let alone 10 years time. “God will take care of that” they say. Reinhardt Bonnke once said: “That sometimes we sit and wait for God to move, when in fact God is waiting for us to move” There are some church leaders who justify their lack of growth and lack of success on the point that they are simply waiting for God to move. The problem with this thinking is that when God does move, they do not have the experience, or the wherewithal to sustain the growth and retain the converts that result from this sudden move of God. Other leaders try ...

One of the biggest questions that I get asked by church leaders is: How do I raise up leaders in my church? The answer is not a complex one. However many of these same leaders who ask me this question, are paranoid that the people they appoint- to leadership, will be better than they are. I need to point out that the best Chief Execs in the world are not good at everything. They employ people who are better than they are - at certain things - to make them and their companies look good. The process is simple and encompasses three areas:                                                                              1) Identification                                               ...

When I am doing a spot of life coaching with leaders there are a number of areas that I look at. I am more concerned with the way that they as leaders interact with the world around them than their intelligence. I want to see what motivates them, or how they persist in the face of their daily frustrations. Are they selfish leaders? Do they allow stresses to swamp their ability to think, to empathise and to hope?

Leadership has many requirmets  here is my spin on what makes a great leader great. The ten best Leadership requirements are: 1) Vision, without it how can a leader hope to take anyone anywhere. 2) Integrity:   Without it how is any leader going to be trusted. 3) Respect: Unless a leader earns the respect of those they lead any success will be short lived. 4) Authenticity: A con artist in leadership can be spotted at ten paces; unfortunately many people are blind to the Con 5) Encouragement: great leaders are constantly encouraging those who work with and for them to complete the vision. 6) Listening: Good leaders are always good listeners, that's how they keep their fingers on the pulse of what is going. 7) Vulnerability: This lets those that leaders lead see the human side of the man that leads them. 8) Service: Great leaders serve, they want to serve and they do serve. But they are not someone else’s slaves. 9) Courage: Without this a leader cannot ho...