Tim King Leadership

Some thoughts and ramblings. Over the last few weeks I have been really praying into the current situation that we find ourselves in and would like to share my thoughts, for what they are worth, with you. Churches in our large cities and towns are finding it tough. The number of unemployed people in their congregations has risen. The food banks are being overwhelmed with requests for help. Children are missing out on school due to positive Covid cases in their classrooms. Tithes and offerings are on the decrease because of what is happening in the economy. Pastors and Church Leaders are feeling the stress and strain of trying to keep ahead of all the health guidelines, keep their staff and family safe and stay connected with their congregations. Pastors and congregations are fast becoming Covid fatigued. During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, that killed 50 million people world wide, the churches did very much what churches have done today. Pastors had their sermons printed in the local...

 Food for thought. In all my many years of teaching and mentoring young leaders, it is rare indeed for me to have to deal with church leaders who have been made unemployed.   In the grand scheme of things churches tend not to make their pastors or Leaders unemployed. This is not say that it doesn’t happen; when there is a down turn in tithes and offerings, the target for layoffs   are church staff- reception, PA’s, paid interns and employed auxiliary church staff. Church Boards only focus on the senior leader as a last resort and in my memory it has never happened. One thing I can say though is that while I have found Church Leaders to be very pastoral with their words when it comes to dealing with the unemployed, it is rare for me to find a leader who is truly empathetic, a leader who can really relate to what a person is going through. I spoke this week with a Christian recruitment agency and was told that they have seen applications for jobs quadruple So what is th...

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  What is church really about? This last week I have been talking to a young church leader about their church and how they are coming out of the lock-down and isolation, which we here in the UK have experienced.  He explained to me that they had kept close contact with all their congregants via online connect groups, video chats and other social media platforms. He was encouraged that over 98% of his congregation had stayed in close contact with each other. He then went on to show me a series of well produced and presented video ads, that the leadership team had produced and put up on various social media sites, to encourage people back to church. As I watched I became acutely aware that there was something missing. The ads themselves were fine. What I felt was not in what they were saying but in what they were not saying. The ads were telling Christians to come back to church, to come meet their friends face to face. To come and enjoy all the new programmes that had been ...

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  You Are Here. Have you ever been in a strange city and found yourself lost and looking at a map in the main square? You know, one of those maps depicting the street layout, with a little arrow pointing to an area with the words neatly captioned "You are here." Once you have familiarised yourself with the area you once again stroll off to an art gallery or museum, safe in the knowledge that you have a vague idea of where you are and that the hotel, at least, is in the opposite direction. As a child I loved looking at old maps, those made by explorers or sea captains. I loved to see the little images of mythical creatures swallowing whole ships and seaman battling, valiantly, but in vain, to rid them of this monster. Or better still, looking at the maps made by hunters and explorers wandering through the vast wilderness of Africa. They marked their maps with their discoveries, rivers, waterfalls and mountains. I looked in vain for the x that marked the spot where they may...

For the most part here in the UK, lockdown is over and people are coming out of their self made bunkers and breathing in the fresh air. They are according to the media trying to live in the "new normal" and get their lives back on track.   Getting back on track for them may mean losing the weight they have accumulated over lockdown, or staying fit now that it is over. It may mean relief to shell shocked parents who can at last know that their children will go back to school in their lifetimes. Children can now go wild, knowing that they can see their friends again while silently admitting that they have missed school. For many, sadly, it can mean they can now publicly grieve the loved ones they have lost.   But what of churches and Christians? What does their post lockdown world look like?    Churches are not yet able to meet as they did before lockdown. Christian Leaders are trying to interpret the government guidelines and protect their flocks at the same tim...