Unstoppable

I just got the heads up on this video today through twitter. At first glance, I thought it was one of those funny clips that was simply going to make me laugh. And it did. The guy in the clip is awesome. He’s froogin out like it ain’t nobody’s business. He couldn’t care less what that hillside of people thought of his moves. It was as if there was something inside of him he just had to get out.

But I stopped laughing half way through the clip. I sat and watched him in awe instead, with a smile on my face and a huge desire to congratulate this guy.

If you listen closely, at the very end a person asks almost incredulously, “How did he do that? How did he do that?”

He was unstoppable.

He just kept moving to the beat in his own way.

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As a church planter, I have to thank this guy. I sometimes wonder what others are thinking about how we’re doing things. I sometimes wonder if I should make the same moves as the others that have gone before me. You know, like maybe square dance or a more traditional ballroom waltz. The Marcarena even.

But what is inside our team just can’t be contained. It is a desire to move in a new way, as if that is the only thing we were created to do. The beat is the same beat that has inspired followers of Christ throughout the ages; the lyrics relay the same message. It is the rhythm of God’s heartbeat that undeniably tells us we’re loved. It is in that love, and as we share that love, that we become an unstoppable force for good in this world.

How did he do this? He just kept moving, and others joined in.

I’m inspired by this man to keep moving and simply wait for others to keep joining in on the fun.