Observation
I was reading “National Geographic” the other day and came across an article on swarm theory. Swarm theory attempts to describe the behavior of things like a school of fish, a flock of birds, or a swarm of bees. Researchers are very interested in learning about their behavior because of the applications in computing and autonomous machines. The article explained how swarms avoid predators by accomplishing highly coordinated maneuvers that confuse and evade their attacker. It turns out the key to both awareness of threats and the coordinated response is based on the individual behavior of members of the swarm. Each member is responsible for being very aware of the state of it’s neighbors.
Fingerprints
The church is the body of Christians. The Holy Scriptures refer to the church as the Body of Christ. We are instructed to watch over each other in love. The first requirement of watching over anything is awareness of it’s state. Physical constraints such as time limit the number of persons each of us can look over at any given time.
Applications
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, observed after more than twenty years of ministry that not following good preaching with putting people together in small groups to work out their salvation was just winning souls for the murderer. What can we learn from swarms?
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