No Excuse

What excuse could be acceptable? As Christians, we have the responsibility to tell others about the saving grace of Jesus Christ. It is our job to plant the seed. No excuse will be good enough when lives are being lost. No excuse could be good enough to keep us from telling others the news

What excuse could be acceptable?
As Christians, we have the responsibility to tell others about the saving grace of Jesus Christ. It is our job to plant the seed. No excuse will be good enough when lives are being lost. No excuse could be good enough to keep us from telling others the news.

Cast: 2 (monolog with offstage voice)

Bible References:

• Matthew 7:2; James 5:9; John 3:18; Luke 6:37;
  2 Thessalonians 2:12; Romans 2:12; 1 Corinthians 11:32;
  1 Peter 4:6; 1 Corinthians 11:31; Revelation 11:18;
  Revelation 20:12; Revelation 20:13

Set: standard

Sound: wireless mics if available

Song: none

Lighting: standard

SFX:

• sound of book (or gavel, or door) slamming

Props: none

Costumes: standard

Special Instructions: none

Time: 8

Sample of script:

Actor enter stage, looks around in frightened amazement, and moves slowly to center stage.

Actor, (nervous): Um, hello? Hello, anyone? I guess I’m supposed to be here right . .

Voice over: For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.

Actor: Oh, okay, well yes. We’re starting now, then? Well, I wish
someone would’ve told me what to expect.

Voice over: Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right
at the door.

Actor: Why wasn’t all this explained somewhere?

Voice over: He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.

Actor: Aren’t they supposed to tell me? Did they have something better
to do?

Voice over: Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn,
and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.

Actor: I didn’t think I was a real bad person.

Voice over: They all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took
pleasure in wickedness.

Actor: How was I to know?

Voice over: For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.

Actor: What’s going to happen to me?

Voice over: When we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

Actor: How could I have known?

Voice over: For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.

Actor: What should I have done differently?

Voice over: But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.

Actor: But wait!

Voice over: And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.

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