Starmer's wise words perfectly apply to church leaders

Below is an extract from the speech British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer gave yesterday at the party's annual conference.

It's a paragraph that every church leader, should read over and over, learn by rote. It makes such great sense.

It was pointless complaining about the result, Starmer said, adding: “Let’s be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don’t look at the electorate and ask them: ‘What were you thinking?’ You look at yourself and ask: ‘What were we doing?’