Christian Leadership (Paperback)

Something has gone terribly wrong in the church. Clyde Simpson has spent thirty-three years watching it happen, studying it, and searching for the root. What he found will unsettle every leader willing to look. The problem is not that God’s Word has lost its power. The problem stands behind the pulpit. Simpson exposes how self-appointed leaders, denominational fractures, and centuries of compromise have produced believers who have no idea who they are in Christ. From the hijacking of the early church by Roman Catholicism to the mishandling of Romans 13 and James 5, no comfortable tradition is left undisturbed. The core message lands like a hammer: God’s people are not weak because the Word failed. They are weak because those called to feed them have served something else. Simpson writes with the gravity of a man who has sat under poor teaching himself and refuses to let another generation suffer the same emptiness. His voice carries both the sharp edge of a prophet and the patience of a teacher shaped by decades in the Word. He does not simply expose what is broken; he clears the debris to reveal what the first-century church understood about honor, reverence, and the absolute integrity of God. This book is for pastors who suspect they have inherited more tradition than truth, for elders willing to reexamine long-held assumptions, and for every believer who senses their Christianity looks nothing like the one described in Scripture. It is an invitation back to the beginning.