In 2011, author John Nap published an evocatively titled book, How the Church Fails Business

People and What Can Be Done About It.

In it, he argued that the church has not helped Christians succeed in the secular business

world because churches have not helped Christians in the secular business world develop the

day-to-day ethical decision-making skills that they need.

To bowl the accusation, but it's also one that implies quite a lot about the relationship

of the church to Christian leaders in the secular business world.

So has the modern church failed to equip business people and so what can be done about it?

Those are my questions to Dr. Albert Molar among reformed leaders in America.

I'm not aware of many gifted leaders who have proven it over the decades more than Molar

has.

He's the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky,

where he brought unimaginable institutional transformation, which has now been documented

in the 2015 book Baptist in America, A History by Thomas Kidd and Barry Hankins.

Molar is not only a leader, he's written a book on leadership titled The Conviction

to Lead 25 Principles for Leadership that Matters.

I talked with him and began by asking him if the church has led business people down and

if so, how?

I think the church has failed not so much by a strategic decision to ignore the business

world, but by a couple of things, a confluence of the fact that many churches simply don't

know what to do with the world of business.

And that is partly because of the social distance and otherwise because some churches

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