Tim King Leadership

 Here is something I published a few years ago, I was reminded of it recently , it is still relevant. An Extract from my book "In Search of Ophir" Peter Dodd was diagnosed with Leukaemia when he was 3 and given a 15% chance to make it! I was a Christian; the rest of the family weren’t. Pete got a fungal infection that spread throughout his body, was taken off his leukaemia treatment, and put into isolation. Drips that were supposed to last twelve hours only lasted six! Treatment was still experimental, but the choice was to have no treatment and die, or try and see what happened! There was also the chance he might go into organ failure! He became very ill and was dying; all he could move were his eyes. You could not touch him as he was too sore. It became a waiting game. Peter’s mum, Diane Dodd, saw the Easter convention was on at McChlery Assembly and the minister had a healing ministry. Diane went to church as a “last resort”. As she walked to the church, she was met by Yvo...

  Holding these truths in Tension. Jesus tells us two things. One in Matthew 28, we must spread the good news and make disciples of people and secondly he tells Peter, in the Gospel of John, to feed his sheep. In the fields and on the hills that surround my house you will see many sheep. They eat the nutrient rich grass, on which they grow fat. They have their lambs in spring and like all herd animals they bleat. For the most part they have a rather placid, quiet life. The sheep dog on the other hand is a working animal. It has a job to do. At the command of the shepherd, this lean mean working machine rounds up and directs the fat docile sheep in the direction that the shepherd wants them to go. In my mind this is a perfect picture of the church. The sheep are the congregation. The sheep dogs are the leaders and the shepherd, as always, is Jesus. While this may be a perfect picture of the church, is it a true picture of the church?   Let me try and equate this to ma...

  Ideals of a Progressive Ideology. I am White Heterosexual Male and I am a Christian. These are the four most dangerous characteristics a person could have at present. This   means in the eyes of those who follow a progressive ideology, that I am the lowest of the low, a scum bag and I swim in the filth and slime of all that is wrong in this world.   I am an oppressor, a racist and I have white privilege ingrained in my DNA. I am a Transphobe   who, by my very existence are a violent threat to those who have no idea what gender they are. I am violent   through my language and my micro-aggressions, these are offenses so slight that just standing in a person's presence could offend them.   I am by definition a misogynist and as a male I am unsafe when around women or those that identify as a woman. I am also a bigot, a real and present threat to society, the LGBTQI+ community and the world at large.   However I am told that there is ...

 Below is a variant of something I wrote in 2014. I am still relevant, BUT GOD...   It has been 22 years since I left my homeland behind because of the fiddling and ranting and raving of a despot and dictator. I became part of a Diaspora whose heart and blood still longs for the sights and sounds and smells of Africa.   BUT GOD,  has had other plans and on my sojourn- first in New Zealand and now in the United Kingdom I have learnt many new things. It has been 22 years of teaching, lecturing, and preaching about leadership, Christian leadership development and ministry values, and principles. In that time, I have had the great privilege to meet many great men and women of God, people who have spoken into my life and given me great insights. It has also been a time where I have seen brilliant church leadership and very poor church leadership. It has been a time where I have seen human failings and weaknesses in all manner of church leaders both successful and ...

    Jesus the first mega church leader? I first wrote this blog in February 2021 but with recent happenings in Australia and America and the fall out, I felt compelled  to rewrite it. I have begun to question the way I view these churches.  I have been to several very famous Mega churches scattered around the world and I have been in many churches aspiring to become mega churches. Some I have loved and enjoyed immensely, others left me cold and uncomfortable. The feeling of discomfort and unease always revolved around the leader, it always left me with the question, why? I fervently believe that there is a place for the mega church in our great metropolitan cities, but not with many of the leaders of these churches. We need to seriously question their ethics, morals, and their character by which they portray Christ Jesus With all things our starting point and standard must be Jesus. After all he was the churches first mega church leader. Once he had to feed h...

  Here is some food for thought.   Why is it that when it comes to leadership development, we give training to those leaders who have the most experience, or to the hi flyers and performers   in our congregations and church organisations ? By their very character and performance these people are natural leaders and need this training the least.   I want to spend a few moments talking about The Leadership Development Paradox.   Many church leaders choose only the best to lead their teams, while this is great, what about the rest? As Church Leaders we make assumptions about people all the time. It is how we evaluate them, nurture and train them. It is part of what we do. Here are some assumptions that we make when developing leaders:    1.  Success is always the result of Effort. People succeed because they have a strong work ethic and therefore by this thinking people who don't succeed do not work hard. Here's the thing. Sometimes rat...

  Making commitments, taking us beyond 2022 Every year, like millions of other people I make new year's resolutions. This year I did no such thing, then among my papers, I found these 10 commitments that I had shared at a leadership seminar a number of years ago. Perhaps these should be the type of commitments that we as Christian Leaders should aspire to.   1) People Matter.   People are our purpose. People are not a means by which we can create our own ends. When we reach out to people, they are our objective and the focus of our attention.   2) We will help people think.   If people are our objective, we will not get bogged down in the process. We will help people to think through our process to recognize  our objective rather than just getting them to do and blindly follow. That objective is and always will be to point people to Jesus. He is after all "The way the truth and the life."   3) Create great environments.   ...