I am not much of an Oprah fan and would describe my taste for the Black Eyed Peas as mild at best. However, you've got to check out this video I stumbled upon (click above link. sorry I don't have the video in the post. I need to figure out how to do that).
I was fascinated by this performance and even more intrigued by this idea of a flash mob. In case you didn't catch it in the video (or were lazy and didn't even watch it) a flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. This apparently was the largest flash mob to date. Oprah's people got the thing going by using Facebook and Twitter to engage people interested in being a part of this. They had 20 professional dancers choreograph a dance and then teach it to the 800 people who showed up to learn. It was then the 800's job to teach the routine to the rest of the mob which was approximately 20,000 people! 20,000 people all in in sync, joined in a beautiful dance together.
Maybe I'm trying to spiritualize things a bit, but what a beautiful picture of the church! A group of people who assemble suddenly and perform acts of hope, redemption, and resurrection in a broken world, and then we disperse to enact this in other pockets of our community and world. I love the multiplication aspect to this as well. One comes up with the idea, and then there are twenty who teach it to 800, who teach it to 20,000 and they inspire a city!
What a beautiful metaphor for the church. The church is a flash mob, one that Jesus started two thousand years ago. And with all due respect to Oprah and the Black Eyed Peas she (the church) is the largest flash mob to date.
We need more to join the mob!
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