Flash Mob

Do you know what a flash mob is? If not, it is usually a group of singers who start singing in a public place, first one person and then another until the entire group is entertaining everyone who is standing around. Still not sure what I mean? If you to Godvine.com or Godtube.com and search for “flash mob” you will find a variety examples. For instance, one of my favorites takes place on a subway when a guy starts singing, “Amazing Grace”. First it is just him and then gradually the entire choir is singing. At the end of the song, they all just get off at the next stop. Another one happened at Five Points South intersection in Birmingham, AL when a large Gospel choir builds from one man to the full choir singing and dancing to “Every Praise.” Check them out. Flash mobs are used for a variety of reasons, not just gospel music, such as setting the scene for a marriage proposal, or a surprise at a wedding reception, entertaining people at a mall with Christmas music. One unusual one was an opera group singing “Funiculi, Funicula” at a London supermarket. By now you should have some idea what I mean and if you go to either website you can entertain yourself for quite some time just listening to flash mob music.

While they have become popular and surprising for several years now, they are not really new. Jesus used the same method to build His ministry. He started with a small group, just twelve followers picked one at a time. Then that group grew to several dozen, and, at one point we are told the story of a flash mob of 5,000 men, plus women and children, who were being moved to the mystical music of His message. What happened at the end of that service, that sermon? They dispersed and went their own ways. Over time, their numbers grew and formed other flash mobs, other groups who got together just a few at a time until they grew into large numbers of people and the large numbers of groups, a sort of super flash mob.

Jesus himself asked the apostles what they came out to hear. They heard what their souls were starving to hear, the Word of God. After Christ rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, the Holy Spirit came to all of the apostles and infused them with the knowledge and the desire to go out to tell the world about Jesus. Again, they each formed their own flash mobs. Whether it was in Rome’s catacombs or the Middle East or any of hundreds of places, they planted their churches, nourished them, and helped them to grow.

Today we refer to them as congregations or parishes or just members. They are just groups of people who have gathered together to pray and worship God and live the Christian lifestyle that His Son taught us about.

Perhaps you might be the nucleus of a flash mob. Maybe you are appointed or selected by God to start your own flash mob of people like yourself who want to worship God, giving Him praise and thanksgiving, and thanking Him for sending His only son to set us free from sin so we can spend eternity with Him, Jesus, and the Hold Spirit.

You don’t have to go out and plant a church or get a degree in ministry to do this. Just spend your life in the manner He wants you to spend it and He will surround you with people, with your own flash mob. If you do, you will have His thanks for leading His mob back to Him. It doesn’t have to be a formal group, just one that can see what you have and do that reflects back to Him.