On Ed Stetzer’s blog, Philip Nation ponders what it is about “flash mobs” that resonates with so many. Flash mobs are planned events in a public place where a group begins to do something in a way that appears spontaneous. Below is a flash mob where the participants froze in Grand Central Station.
Nation wonders if “flash mobs” don’t point to a need to connect.
But it is a fleeting sense. For an hour or maybe the whole day, the flash mob participant has been a part of something larger. They were–if for only a few minutes–a member of a community.
Here for the whole thing.
We’ve been learning the last couple of years about reorienting our church mindset to “go” instead of “come”. That is, being deliberate in all of our relationship building for the purpose of spreading the gospel, and hopefully that all will see their natural social networks as their God appointed opportunities for spreading. I wish I could say the lessons were sinking in. Too many years of thinking church was the fortress to retreat into. God help us!
Amen Scott.
One thing that has been great for me is to take pictures at our high school events. I can then post them on Facebook. But, we really need to be strategic and patient over the long haul.