Mixed up Mission
By Eric Fisher
Summary
A drama team struggles to throw together a drama about being on a mission
from God.
Scripture
Matthew 28:18-20
Characters
Luke - not that bright
Jon – quietly confused
Jared – the only smart one of the bunch
Kristin – one half
Camille – the other half
James – doesn’t want to be here
Chris – Kind of gets it but not really. Needs to be good at physical
comedy.
Script
(Everyone is standing around talking. Luke enters.)
Luke: Okay everybody listen up. Service starts in one hour and we have
absolutely nothing. Tonight’s theme is “On a Mission”. So all we need to
do is figure out somebody who was on a mission from God.
(Long silence)
Jon: Gandhi!
Jared: No moron, he means someone from the Bible.
Chris: Oh, how about David?
Kristin: That’s a great idea. He was the guy who killed that other
guy with that thing, right?
Jon: Yeah David was huge and there was this midget named Goliath who
was threatening God’s people. (Jon gets on his knees as Goliath)
Chris: And David had a sniper rifle but he had to get down on his knees
so he could hit Goliath between the eyes. (Chris gets on his knees to shoot)
And he shot him five times but he just kept coming at him!
Camille / Kristin: (as though it were real) Look out! Look out!
Jared: Stop! Everybody just stop. What are you people talking about?
Sniper rifles? In the Bible? You guys don’t have a clue. David was just
a boy and Goliath was a giant. David killed Goliath and the Philistines
ran away.
Jon: A boy can’t just kill a giant.
Camille: Dude, that’s just absurd.
Kristin: Yeah, seriously.
James: How about that old guy in the Bible? With a long beard.
Chris: Moses?
Luke: Yeah him. He was on a mission from God right? I mean to build
that boat thing.
Camille: He built in like thirty days. And put all the animals on it.
Kristin: And then it rained and everybody died except him and his family.
And when the water went away, he gave people the Ten Commandments.
Jared: Alright, that’s enough. Look. Moses was a leader of Israel and
he set God’s people free from slavery in Egypt. When they came to the Red
Sea he prayed and the water was held back so they could pass through. God
used Him to bring deliverance to God’s chosen people. --- Noah built the
ark.
Luke: Dude, whatever. Old people can’t swim.
Jared: He didn’t swim.
Jon: You just said he did.
James: Guys, we aren’t getting anywhere here. Let’s go the most obvious
choice, Jesus. He was on a mission from God.
Camille: He was God. So how could he be on a mission from God?
Kristin: The theme isn’t On a Mission from Myself.
Luke: That’s not going to work. What about Paul? He wrote almost all
the New Testament. He must have been on a mission from God.
Chris: He even took missionary journeys to tell people that Jesus was
the Messiah. (Pause) But wait. Didn’t he get burned alive or something?
Luke: No, he was beheaded.
Kristin: That’s got to hurt.
Camille: I don’t want people thinking that you’re gonna get beheaded
if you’re on a mission from God. That’s not going to go over very well.
Luke: Why would you even want to do anything if you knew you were going
to die?
Chris: It doesn’t make sense to me. God sends a little boy to fight
a giant. He sends an old man to free the Israelites from the most powerful
king in the world and the greatest apostle gets the axe.
Jared: You guys just don’t get it. It’s not about the people that God
sent. It’s about the God that sent the people.
Luke: I’m confused.
Jared: God uses ordinary people to do great things. The person just
has to be willing to follow after God. God does the rest.
Chris: So God used David even though he was a boy because he believed
that God could do anything.
Jon: It wasn’t Moses who set the people free, but God used Moses to
lead them to freedom.
Camille: All those people were great just because they let God
do what he wanted to do in their lives.
James: What about Paul?
Jared: He said, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the
race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of
righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge will award me on that
day, and not only to me but also for all that have longed for his appearing.”
Chris: Being on a mission from God is about living every part of your
life for Him.
Camille: It means keeping the faith and doing whatever God asked of
you.
James: So how do we make that into a drama?
(Everyone looks around for an answer, then to Jared. )
Jared: I don’t know.
Jon: What do you mean you don’t know? Mister know – it- all.
James: Dude you’re useless.
Every body: We’re never going to get this done. I give up. This is
dumb, etc.
(Everybody walks away and leaves Jared just standing there by himself.)
(Jared shrugs his shoulders and walk off)
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