A Response to our President's Moral Leadership

OK, here is the transcript of the press briefing:

Transcript of Trump's contentious Aug. 15 press conference

After reading it all the way through on paper, I must say that he does a typically undiplomatic job and that's about it until he says:

TRUMP: Excuse me. If you take a look at some of the groups, and you see -- and you'd know it if you were honest reporters, which in many cases you're not -- but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.

So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?

But they were there to protest -- excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.

Infrastructure question. Go ahead.​

As of that point on in the transcript, president Trump feels very solidly to be un-diplomatic (the sins of Rehoboam and Nabal). He doesn't throw gasoline on the fire, but it certainly feels like his words from that point on are rash and careless. On top of this they are unsympathetic to black people and other minorities who are sad and scared.

This was a moment, especially now that a terrorist attack has happened to redirect news coverage, for the country to have a very pastoral moment and the president failed to be a good Christian leader who speaks truth in a wise way that unites people and beckons unbelievers to Jesus (important for any Christian leader) while maintaining respect in the eyes of unbelievers (something the bible tells us all to do).

The bible indicates in Proverbs that wise leadership is based, among many other things, on well thought out words that have been counseled by many counselors and are like wise sayings. This is true of any leader, but especially of a Christian who is a leader. Also, President Trump has said before that Americans who are suffering need their president to show up and provide caring leadership (a wonderful idea), but he failed to go to Charlottesville or at least attend our spiritual sister's funeral.

I mean this just feels way off from what I would expect Jesus to expect from me if I was somehow in President Trump's place.

Please don't misinterpret this, I am not a Democrat, I am not a Republican either. I am not social liberal, I hate the murder of the unborn, and want a thoroughly biblical society, and what anti-fa did was wrong, It's just that you guys may have noticed I base every action and belief on the bible as much as I can and I call it how it is given a literal reading of God's Word. Being unwise ("foolish" - though not stupid in any respect as that is "simple") in any way shape or form is a sin. A particularly poor sin for leaders to have given the history recorded by 1 Samuel through 2 Kings.

 

As the bible repeatedly warns us to do, I expect Christians to avoid sin or at least be repentant after they make the wrong choice. Unfortunately, President Trump sins and never seems to admit his errors and apologize and seek to walk more like Jesus.

When I look to a righteous, godly king, I look to David. He is the man who seems most righteous in the bible who actually gets a kingdom on earth. I ask myself in politics, "what would David do?" I feel President Trump at least leads with his sense of justice, but it seems like he does a poor job compared to David, a man far beneath any saint in Jesus Christ according to the bible.

President Trump is not a pastor, but sometimes the leader of a nation as was the case with Jehoshaphat or Hezekiah or Josiah must give a nation spiritual leadership in dark times. Presidents visit disaster areas and the site of terrorist attacks and do attend funerals when it sends a strong message to the country. This is part of our history.

 

That sounds very judgmental. I would ask you to please list his sins that he is unrepentant of to further the thread and help others understand your perspective.

 

What comes to mind most often is foolishness as defined by Proverbs:

What Does the Bible Say About Fool?

Also, there is a failure to try and live up to the Sermon on the Mount's moral teachings in what I can only describe as "in manifest ways."

(Matthew 5) (Matthew 6)

The president seems to not realize that anger, name-calling, mocking, divorce, and lust, among others, are all very wrong.

 

I must say though that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are no better morally than President Trump. Their support for social liberalism and mainline Christianity show s this. We sorely lack the kind of elected leaders at the top we need in America.