DramaShare® Script – Waiting For The Present© Based on Acts 2 Cast – 3 actors, any age, male or female No special lighting, sound, costuming or sets. Script Billy:
Hi guys, what’cha doin’?
Bobby: Hi, Billy. Not doin’ much actually, just hangin’. Bert:
Yep, that’s it, Billy, just hangin’.
Bobby: Kinda borin’, this. Me ‘n Bert, all by ourselves, just waitin’ for somethin’ to happen. Bert:
You said it, Bobby! Borin’. That’s what!
Billy:
So, now that we’ve settled on the theory that all this waiting is boring, what now?
Bobby: What now, what, Billy? Billy:
What are you going to do, seeing as how just hangin’ is borin’, what are you planning to do to change things?
Bert:
Change? Why’d we wanta change?
Bobby: Yeh, seems like that’d be kinda silly! Change? Why for’d we change? Nope, I don’t think so Tim, me ‘n Bert, we’re just hangin’, just gonna be hangin’. Billy:
That’s, that’s just, well, silly, that’s what! I mean, you are bored here, yet you don’t plan to do anything about it! It just doesn’t figure!
Bert:
Oh, and Billy, I s’pose you’ve got mega-plans, what you’re gonna do, right? As if!
Billy:
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, I am going to the fairgrounds for the big revival meeting.
Bobby, laughs: Revival? You are gonna leave all this and head out to a . . . .revival? Well, I have never heard of anything so, so . . . . Bert:
. . . so silly, that’s what! And I s’pose there’s gonna be thousands of people out there at this, this . . . . what did you call it?
Billy:
Revival meeting.
Bert:
Oh, yeh, revival meeting.
Billy:
And, no, I don’t expect there will be thousands of people at the revival meeting. More likely hundreds of people, I would expect.
Bobby: So, hey, there you go then, hundreds of people, you say. And just how do you expect a revival with only hundreds of people? Tell me that will ya? Bert:
What do ya do at these here, (thinks), revival meetin’s?
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DramaShare® Script – Waiting For The Present© Billy:
It’s great, we sing hymns, and we pray, and we just worship God. It’s a blast! Hey, why don’t you too come along tonight?
Bobby, faintly disguised disgust: Sing. Pray. Worship. Hey, sounds real peachy keen to me, but well, I, . . I .. . I’ve got some other commitments, yeh, that’s it! Billy:
Oh, that’s too bad. (thinks) What other commitments do you have?
Bobby: I, I, I, I have to help Bert, that’s what it is. Sorry, would’a loved to come to the, (thinks), revival meeting, but, (sighs), that’s how it goes, ya know. Billy:
Hey, maybe we could all work at your, your commitment, that way we could be ready to all go to the revival by 7:30 tonight. How about it?
Bert, startled: All of us work, no, no, no that just won’t work cause, cause . . . . , look Bobby, you tell Billy why it just won’t work. Bobby: Who, me? Me tell, why, that is to say, well, the reason is clear, it’s just that we can’t go to the revival if there’s only gonna be a few hundred people. If there’d’a been a few thousand, then sure, maybe, likely, maybe. You bet! Too bad! Bert:
Yeh, Billy, that’s it. Small crowds just don’t cut it, seems like. Want to be like, who was it in the Bible? Old Miz Franklin, she told us that story years ago, in Sunday School. This fella, he preached a mighty sermon to thousands of people, and a whole bunch’a them got baptized and stuff.
Bobby: Right on! I remember that, it was Moses, I think, back in Proverbs, or maybe Hebrews, yeh, seems like I remember Moses in Hebrews tellin’ that story. Anyhow, Moses, he preached this long sermon all about Jesus, and why, just like that, 30,000 people were baptized! Billy:
Actually I believe it was Peter, and it was in Acts. Peter confronted the crowd, saying that they had been responsible for crucifying Jesus, and that this Jesus was the Messiah, sent by God. And, of course, all who heard Peter’s message became very sorry for what they had done to Jesus, and they asked Peter what they could do to get things right with God. Do you remember what Peter told them to do?
Bert:
As I recall, Peter, he told the crowd that they’d have to be really good people and live perfect lives, else they’d be in major trouble!
Bobby: That’s just it, right there! That’s how come I just get no where with this church stuff. I think about God, and stuff, and I really do want to do what’s right and live a perfect life, and all. Then bang, I up and do something bad! Happens every time! Guess I just wasn’t cut out to be a churcher! Bert:
Right on! Me too!
Billy:
Guys, that’s where you’ve got it all wrong! Peter didn’t tell the crowd to live perfect lives, he knew that humans, on their own, just can’t be perfect. So Peter told the crowd that what they had to do was to ask God’s forgiveness for the sins they had committed, and to accept the fact that Jesus had died on the cross for their sins, every person there, and every sin they had ever committed!
Bobby: Wow! Every sin of every one of the people in that crowd! Wow! Were they lucky or what? Bert:
Yeh, if only we’d lived in those days, then Jesus would have taken away our sins too, and we could have been forgiven!
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Bobby: Yeh, just my luck! Born 2,000 years too late! Those guys, they had it good back then! Billy:
Guys, Jesus did take away your sins, and you can be forgiven, all you have to do is the same thing Peter asked that crowd to do.
Bert:
And, what’s that? I s’pose it’s tough, isn’t it?
Billy:
Not at all! All God asks is that you accept His gift of salvation, and receive His gift of the Holy Spirit who shall be with you from that time on. And, here’s the really exciting part, Peter said, “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off -- for all whom the Lord our God will call." In other words, the promise from God was not just for those Peter was talking to, it was for all people, forever. And that includes you, Bobby, yes and you, Bert! God’s gift of salvation is for each of us.
Bobby: You know, that’s incredible, it’s so simple, it’s so, so, uncomplicated! Can anything that simple possibly work, to take my sins away. Bert:
Yes, are you sure I don’t have to earn this gift?
Billy:
Bert, God’s gift of salvation can not be earned, it can not be bought, it can not be attained. It is just that – a gift from God to you.
Bobby: But look around us. Things are really terrible, no one worships God, no one pays any attention to right and wrong. Surely God’s promise was for those times when people lived better lives. Billy:
Strange you should say that! Peter warned and pleaded with the crowd, and his words were, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation." He was speaking of those people in that time.
Bert:
“Corrupt generation”! Wow, seems like that would best apply to today! So, you mean, God’s promise is for me. Now?
Billy:
It’s for you. Now! Listen, it’s almost time to go to church. If we hurry we can get everything done and still get to church.
Bobby and Bert look at each other. Bobby: Actually, seems like everything has already been done. There’s nothing to hold us back from accepting your invitation. Bert:
And God’s invitation.
Billy:
Amen! Let’s go now.
All exit stage
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