Reckless Love and Leadership

I’m sure many of you have heard the song Reckless Love by Cory Asbury. If you haven’t heard it yet, I highly encourage you to check it out! It’s my current favorite song.. The lyrics are so humbling and remind me of how recklessly Jesus loves us and how He shows that to us.

While this song has been on the rise in popularity and is a song that expresses emotion and a new stance of worship, we don’t rest upon the lyrics of Cory Asbury, we rest upon the word of God.  This song allows a different perspective on the radical truth throughout all of God’s word.  We serve the God of reckless love. He so beautifully shows us how to lead and love recklessly in all areas of our lives.  Leadership is about serving.  As we embrace servant leadership we must grasp and seek the one we serve--our Lord and Savior.

Reckless love seems foolish.  Reckless love is loving someone regardless of their flaws or  mistakes. Reckless love demonstrates the type of leaders we should be. Reckless love demonstrates the type of lives we should live.

The real meaning behind reckless love is loving people regardless of where they are, who they are or what they’re going through.  We should follow Jesus’s example to be people who love reckless, without abandon or limitation. This plays a huge role in the way we live, the types of our relationships and how we lead others. We want to be reckless lovers like Jesus.

Let’s take a look at what our faith as Christians rests on.  It rests on the fact that Jesus came, lived a perfect blameless life, died a sinner’s death on the cross, and as followers of Christ we believe in the fact that he was raised from the grave three days later.  1 Corinthians 1:18 expresses this main idea, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”  It doesn’t make sense to sacrifice all of who you are to love, but Jesus did it anyway.  As servants of Christ we are called to live in foolishness sharing the power of God.  

As leaders and as lovers of His people, we need to do it recklessly and foolishly in the eyes of the world. We want to be people who when we get to Heaven, God looks at us and says, “well done my good and faithful servant.”

Philippians 2:5-7 says “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus; Who, being in very nature of God, did not consider equality with God  something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.”  This is the definition of being a Christian and living with Christ.  As leaders and as Christ followers we are called to live like Christ and make disciples not simply encourage decisions.  In order to be a leader you must love, in order to love you must sacrifice.  In order to sacrifice you must rest on your Savior's ulitmate sacrifice. 

You are loved!  Live fearlessly!