Donald Trump: lessons in leadership?

John Brand  |  Comment
Date posted:  28 Mar 2025
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Donald Trump: lessons in leadership?

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Over the years, I have become more and more convinced that, from a human perspective at least, the most important factor in determining the growth and fruitfulness of the local church is leadership.

I have studied and analysed a large number of churches that have split, closed or gone into maintenance mode, and almost without exception the problem can be traced back to a leadership issue – either a lack of leadership, the wrong people in leadership, the wrong exercising of leadership or the wrong attitude towards leaders on the part of the congregation as a whole.

There is a crisis of leadership in the church, at least here in the UK and I suspect also further afield. But, with those thoughts filtering in my mind, I realised there are some important lessons to learn from President Trump who holds a position often described as "the leader of the free world."

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