Christian Walk

Come to the Table

Michelle Patterson · 09 June 2025
Script

Summary: Older son returns from college and daughter struggles with his return and his guest. But it's an invitation to come to God's table or to welcome other's to His…

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The Apostle

Garth von Buchholz · 12 October 2024
Style
Dramatic monologue
Duration
20 mins
Scripture
Mark 3:17, Luke 9:54, John, 13:34-35, 1 John 1:1-3, 5-7, 1 John 4:7
Summary
The apostle John had such a fiery and zealous temperament that Jesus nicknamed him and his brother James “Sons of Boanerges”, meaning “sons of thunder.” Contrasting this is John’s own gospel and epistles, for which he later became known to the church as “the Apostle of Love” and “John the Evangelist.” John played a significant role in the early church. According to early church tradition, John would frequently repeat this exhortation to his congregation: “Little children, love one another”, a message that was central to his teachings from Jesus. This short drama reconciles the two sides of John and how his beloved Saviour taught him the power of love and mercy. 
Script

Setting: A church around the year 85-90 AD,  before John was exiled to the island of Patmos.   Characters: John the Apostle Scene: An ordinary, rough, wooden step…

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PAULUS

Garth von Buchholz · 20 July 2024
Style
One act play with 6 or more characters
Duration
45 mins
Scripture
Acts 1-28, many of Paul’s epistles
Summary
This drama portrays an imagining of the apostle Paul’s last moments before he is executed in Rome. He has a vision that he is speaking with Jesus again and Jesus helps him recall the many defining moments of his life. In the end he goes from fear and to peace and confidence because he knows he has eternal life through Christ. The last scene, after Paul’s execution, is a foreshadowing of how his evangelism and his martyrdom will help many people become Christians in the years ahead. 
Script

  Setting: A cell in a Roman prison where the apostle Paul is awaiting execution. As this is not a historical play in the pure sense, both costumes and set need not…

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A Song of Songs

Garth von Buchholz · 20 July 2024
Style
One act play with 6 or more characters
Duration
30 mins
Scripture
Song of Songs 1-8
Summary
The dialogue in this script was adapted from the original Song of Songs in the Bible. A woman (the Beloved) is emaciated from a terminal illness and is close to death. She interacts with Jesus (the Lover), who is unseen to the two nurses that attend to her. They treat her kindly as they believe she is delirious.   
Script

Setting: The hospital room of a  terminally  ill woman Characters: The Beloved, the Lover, two nurses, two orderlies/security guards Scene: In the Beloved’s hospital…

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The Two Sisters

Garth von Buchholz · 08 July 2024
Style
Dramatic
Duration
10 mins
Scripture
John 11:38-57, Luke 10:38-42, John 12:1-11
Summary
Mary and Martha from Bethany are depicted in this vignette as older women in their sixties. They are preparing a meal for their brother Lazarus and a guest of honour, the apostle John.
Script

The Two Sisters Setting: Late afternoon in a “modern”, well-equipped kitchen in Bethany in the AD 70s, several years after the siege of Jerusalem. Bethany is small…

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Love Is...

13 June 2022
Style
Dramatic.     
Duration
7min Actors: 1F, 1M/F 
Summary
Sometimes we are think our love might be genuine, but is it really reflected in our attitudes to other people? A 're-jig' of one of my previous dramas, in order to suit the needs of a morning family service cum baptism. A woman is phoning a “friend” to check whether she is going to a baptism service at church the next morning. A narrator keeps stepping in to remind us what St Paul has to say about love in Chapter 13, of the first letter to the Corinthians. (Note: The conversation mimics the style of a character that might be seen in the TV series “Coronation Street”.
Script

  (Dolly is phoning her friend, Mary on her new portable telephone.) Dolly:- C'mon Mary, pick the phone up. I haven't got all night . (Aside: She'll not have 'er…

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I’ve come to light that candle

Sheila Hamil · 13 June 2022
Style
Dramatic.
Duration
7min
Actors
6M/F
Summary
How easily we can be prevented from making the most important decision of our lives, to be lit up for God in this dark world. In this drama, the devil tries to prevent people from lighting a candle. (An update of an old drama, for use in our high school Carol service.)
Script

  [GUIDELINES – In costume of horns and red cloak, the devil stands centre stage as guardian of the candle. Each character who enters may do so from any direction,…

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I'll tell them there's plenty of time!

Sheila Hamil · 13 June 2022
Style
Dramatic.     
Duration
5min
Actors
1M/F
Summary
A monologue in which the devil asks his demons to come up with the best scheme to stop ordinary people seeking God. [Author’s note: I don't know where this drama came from originally. It's not mine, but I have embellished it a little, for a baptism preparation service. Hope the real author doesn't mind!] 
Script

  Character: Narrator Once the devil decided to hold a competition to see which of his demons could come up with the best scheme to stop ordinary people seeking God and…

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Ten Striving Christians

Sheila Hamil · 30 May 2022
Style
Drama (with light touches).
Duration
4min
Scripture
Luke 14 Verses 15-24
Actors
1N, 10M/F
Summary
“And they all one by one made excuses”. In the style of ten little Indians, each Christian bows out and there is no real commitment at all.
Script

Suggested guidelines: Narrator in the pulpit. The ten Christians are together, but spaced out a little, on centre stage. All exit one by one after they have said their…

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Church Lockdown : Praise and Hope

Michael Hurn · 27 August 2021
Summary
A sequel to a previous "lockdown"-inspired poem, which can be found at http://www.dramatix.org.nz/scripts/christian-walk/670-church-lockdown-a-prayer
Script

‘… You, Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter up of my head’  Psalm 33. ‘… when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will…

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If Jesus Came to Church

Sauni Rinehart · 11 November 2020
Summary
How would people act if Jesus came to church? Style:  Dramatic.    Duration: 3-4 minutes Actors: Readers’ theater with four Readers
Script

1: When you come to church, 2: what are you thinking? 3: Am I on time? 4: Am I dressed right? 2: Will my seat be open? 3: When you come to church, 4: what are you…

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But Lord, I'm Still Afraid

Sauni Rinehart · 05 November 2020
Style
Dramatic.       Duration: 2-3 minutes
Actors
1F
Script

Summary: A long-time Christian woman, struggling with putting on a good front, admits her fears.   Characters: Kelly, late-thirties/early forties; a long-time Christian…

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