Very Rev Dr David Steel
Died: 11 November, 2002, in hospital in Edinburgh, aged 92
DR DAVID Steel, who was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1974-75, was a statesman-minister, playing a prophetic and decisive role in the life of the Church of both Africa and Scotland. His way of "getting things done" could ruffle feathers, whether in the local communities of Nairobi or Linlithgow, or in the courts of the Church - and even in government ministries. Listening to a group of younger ministers speaking about the Church’s "new" discovery of consultation, he reminded them that the New Testament had little to say about consultation, but a great deal to say about leadership!
He was certainly a leader among men. As one of his closest friends once put it: "This man Steel has nerves of steel."
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