LOVE IS A LEADER

We are in a philosophical crisis because the busy, boring and cynical life of our culture has fully landed in the lap of our faith. This has a certain excitement to it because now we have “to put up-or shut up” in authentic ways in a culture that has worn itself thin by quick fixes, high speed solutions, memes, government bail outs, fleeting relationships and Internet answers. What’s the real answer?

The solution is as it has always been. There is a desperate need for loving and serving people, someone to take the authoritative leadership of the helpless, hopeless, and confused and lead them to something real and human while leading them as well to things supernatural and Godly. Any authority we may have imitates the authority of Christ. This kind of leadership and living is in contrast to a culture that often has more mammon than God as motive. We need leaders to be good shepherds, servants who love, who call by name and respect those for whom they are responsible, enabling the sheep to hear their voice. Why should they listen otherwise? A leader is love. Love is a leader. Love is the Leader. We all listen to love. If the broken have listened to, and followed unloving false shepherds, we go rescue them one at a time (Luke 15:3-7).

“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me.” Jesus