Right Worship© by Wayne L. Tilden
By Wayne L. Tilden Acknowledgments to the Friday Evening Koinonia TLC Group Theme:
Luke 18:10-13; John 4:23
Cast:
5 WORSHIPPERS READER
Set:
There is a line of five chairs — or a long pew if you can arrange it — facing the audience. At the end of the pew, on the end furthest from the entrance, there is a podium or speaker’s stand.
Script: Worshipper 1 Enters from offstage, crosses behind the chairs or pew. He/she “shakes hands” with one or two “greeters” then sidles to the far end of the chairs or pew, takes his/her place, seated, with one hand raised in prayer, praise, and worship. Worshipper 1:
O, Lord. Thank you for showing me the right way to worship and honor you in my heart.
Worshipper 2 Enters from offstage, crosses behind the chairs or pew. He/she “shakes and clasps hands” with one or two “greeters” then sidles into the chairs or pew, next to Worshipper 1, takes his/her place, standing, with both hands raised in prayer, praise, and worship.) Worshipper 2:
Oh, Lord. Thank you for showing me the right way to worship and honor you in my heart, and not like … (Indicating Worshipper 1) … him/her.
Worshipper 3 (Enters from offstage, crosses behind the chairs or pew. He/she “shakes and clasps hands” with one or two “greeters,” “embraces” one or two “persons,” then sidles into the chairs or pew, next to Worshipper 2, takes his/her place standing, with both hands upraised, and body swaying in prayer, praise, and worship.) Worshipper 3:
Oh, Lord. Thank you for showing me the right way to worship and honor you in my heart. And not to be afraid to express my emotion through movement … (Indicating Worshippers 1 & 2.) … like them!
Worshipper 4 Enters from offstage, crosses behind the chairs or pew. He/she “shakes and clasps hands” with one or two “greeters,” “embraces” one or two “persons,” and “high-fives” one or two others, then sidles into the chairs or pew, next to Worshipper 3, takes his/her place He/she keeps raising his/her hands and standing, arms raised, then lowering them as he/she sits, in a oneman/woman “wave,” as he/she prays, praises, and worships. Worshipper 4:
Oh, Lord. I thank you that You have given me the true Gift of unbridled worship — casting out all fear — and coming before you with total abandon.
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(Looking at Worshippers 1, 2, & 3.) Not like those egocentric stick-in-themuds. Thank you, Jesus! Worshipper 5 Enters from offstage, crosses behind the chairs or pew, shakes one hand “properly.” He/she sees what is going on and begins to look, desperately, for anywhere else to sit. He/she gives up, resignedly, then sits quietly, hands folded in his/her lap, lips pursed — as though he/she has had one too many lemons! Looking around at the activity which is still taking place. Worshipper 5:
Oh, my Lord! How unseemly! It's just between You and me, Lord. You know what goes on in my heart for You!
Reader enters as did the worshippers, except does not go to the seats. Instead he/she stops at a podium or reading stand just short of the “near” end of the seats and reads the passages below, as though all one, from a Bible. Reader:
Hear the Word of the LORD: “Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men — extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’” And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’” “… the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.”
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