I was speaking at a summer camp and it was "Thursday Night" (you know... the last, most emotionally intense, yet memorable night of the week). Things were progressing along swimmingly. The worship band did a great job leading the students in sincere worship. The students were engaged. It had been a great week on all accounts up to this point. Now I was up to bat. The bases were loaded. Time for the message.
The topic that night was sharing Christ with your friends. A college intern at the camp was going to star with me in an adapted skit we were using at the end of the message.
A very intense skit.
Without going into too much detail, let's just say there was lots of fake blood, Hellish background music and incredibly intense dialogue.
At the end of the skit, I (covered in blood) was giving the challenge for students to take sharing their faith seriously. It was only about a two minute closing... But there was a huge problem. At the most inopportune moment possible, one of the band members' phones began ringing onstage (he had accidentally left in there).
It wasn't just any ringtone.
It was a hideously high-pitched, loud, hyperactive squirrel-type laugh ringtone. And it wouldn't stop.
Talk about ruining the moment.
He eventually came on stage grabbed the phone and apologized. By this point, everyone in the room was laughing (it was a funny sounding ringtone).
Thankfully, God is the one who changes lives... Not us or our feeble efforts. His ministry always flows from His mercy.
Do you have a preaching disaster story?
It was once when I wasn't feeling well and I had to give motivational speech in front of 70 people. I have been motivated from within but my body wasn't giving me support that I needed. I couldn't put energy in my speech so I felt very bad about it. Although people were enjoying and were motivated from my story but as I wasn't able to give my 100% I was feeling very bad about it. That was my preaching disaster story!
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