My introduction to Donald Trump came through our shared commitment to American renewal. Over the years I have come to see him as one of the most consequential disruptors in American political history.
That word — disruptor — is important to me. The title of my book is Divine Disruption. I did not choose that word to make a political statement. I chose it because disruption is, in the biblical pattern, often how God moves. He does not always work through expected instruments, polished voices, or candidates who fit neatly into our categories of what a leader should look like.
He used a stuttering shepherd to confront Pharaoh. He used a shepherd boy to defeat a giant. He used fishermen to turn the world upside down. The pattern is consistent: the instrument is often not what we would have chosen.
I am not asking for uncritical allegiance to any political figure. That is not faithfulness — that is idolatry, and it has damaged the witness of the Church in every generation it has appeared. The believer's job is not to sanctify whoever holds power, but to think carefully about what is actually happening and act accordingly.
America is in a moment of genuine disruption. The old consensus has cracked. The questions being raised — about sovereignty, about faith in public life, about who benefits from the existing order — are real questions that deserve real answers. That disruption is uncomfortable. It is also necessary.
How should a believer engage it? With discernment. With Scripture in one hand and the newspaper in the other. With the understanding that God's purposes are not exhausted by any political party or personality, and that our ultimate allegiance belongs to a Kingdom that outlasts them all.
And with the courage to be present — not retreating from the arena, but engaging it with the character and conviction that the moment demands.