Tim King Leadership

  This weeks ramblings. I heard this week of another Pastor, of a large church, being dismissed for moral transgressions – that is just ‘church speak’ for he committed adultery. When I heard this my mind immediately went to the song by the rock band Queen:   “Another one’s gone, Another one’s gone, Another one bites the dust”. I think the devil sings this song every time a Minister, Pastor or Christian Leader leaves the ministry, in disgrace, for this sort of thing. It leaves me sad and upset and even a little angry, that people could so easily throw away their calling and ministry. Proverbs 4:23 tells us to guard our hearts. Proverbs 5 tells us what will happen when we lack discipline and Ephesians 6 tells us to take a stand, to stand firm and to keep praying in the spirit. Being the Christian Leader of any church representing Jesus Christ, is an awesome responsibility. For those fortunate to lead such a church there is a high calling and an even higher standard...

    Learning to Lead through Crisis.   Thankfully through the years I can honestly say that I have had to deal personally with a crisis only about half a dozen times. I have, on the other hand, had to help a number of Christian leaders through the process of learning to lead in and through a crisis. When dealing with a crisis it isn't just about eliminating the problems but also on how to see and recognize the opportunities that the crisis may present. Not long ago, I was having coffee during a mentoring session with a young pastor. He told me that he had just been appointed the youth pastor of the church he was now in, when a few weeks later the senior pastor had been dismissed for moral transgressions. The Young Youth pastor was then appointed by the elders as senior pastor. The young man told me that the fallout from this crisis was rumbling on in the background and every time he suggested something it got harder and harder for him to control: The ex senior lea...

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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