"If God isn’t pumping..."

Here’s a quote that blessed me the other night as I was reading through some material in my Logos software. The quote concerns preaching.

“In the 1800s a famous organist traveled from town to town giving concerts. In each town he hired a boy to pump the organ during the concert. After one performance, he couldn’t shake the boy, who followed him back to his hotel. “Well, we had a great concert tonight, didn’t we?” said the boy. “I had a great concert,” replied the maestro. “Go home!” The next night, halfway through a fugue, the organ quit. The little boy stuck his head around the corner of the organ, grinned, and said, “We aren’t havin’ a very good concert tonight, are we?”1

The point? “If God isn’t pumping when we’re preaching, nothing happens.”

1Briscoe, D. S., Larson, K., & Osborne, W. L. (1993). Measuring up : The need to succeed and the fear of failure. Mastering ministry's pressure points (51). Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books.