Description
The Great and the Good
Bible Ref: Matthew 19-20 & 26; Mark 10 & 14; Luke 17-19; John 11 & 12
Each of the following sketches (scenes) can be used to form the basis for a complete act of worship or used as individual scenes on separate occasions. Each scene will require a narrator to read the linking text as well as the characters in the scene itself.
List of scenes:
Lazarus is Raised from the Dead
The Resurrection and the Life
The Pharisees Plot to Kill Jesus
The Ten Lepers
The Return of the Son of Man
The Persistent Widow and the Unjust Judge
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
Marriage and Divorce
Blessing the Children
The Rich Young Leader
A Camel through the Eye of a Needle
The Workers in the Vineyard – the Last will be First
James and John and Their Mother's Request
The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven
Blind Bartimaeus
Zacchaeus
At the House of Zacchaeus
Ten Minas and Ten Servants
Mary Anoints Jesus
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
Some of those with Jesus were confident of their own goodness, so he told them another parable.
Jesus: Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee.
Pharisee: God, I thank you that I am not like other people.
Jesus: The other was a tax collector.
Tax collector: God, forgive me.
Pharisee: Lord you see what I’m like …
Tax collector: You know what I do…
Pharisee: When it comes to money…
Tax collector: I’m greedy.
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