Using drama in worship, ministry and the life of the church

No, but we do know that they preached. Do we know anything at all about the "drama"?

 

A pulpit just provides a platform from which to speak. Questioning the use of a pulpit in a discussion of drama in worship, begs the question.

 

guys, just because it is not recorded in the Bible doesnt mean it is wrong, or cannot be useful.


This is elementary stuff, come on now.

 

We understand that it is elementary. It isn't supposed to be difficult. The question is "Are there any boundaries to worship?" Where does it all end? Are we left to our own devices or are we to seek out the right and proper ways as close as we can to what was done in the 1st Century? Are we to add and what and when?
"Every man did that which was right in his own eyes" is not how I would want my epitaph to read.

 

My question about pulpits was a response to SFIC's question about where you find drama specifically mentioned as being used by the Apostles.

The inference I drew from his question was that "Unless you find it used in the NT, it's somehow UNscriptural."

If I drew the wrong conclusion from SFIC's question, I stand to be corrected.

No....I don't know of a passage in the NT that specifically indicates that drama was ever used by the Apostles, but that per se doesn't make it UNscriptural any more than the absence of a verse that specifically states that an Apostle preached from a pulpit.

We have used drama, skits, etc., in our services, and I see nothing UNscriptural about it.

 

I was not asking the question in the manner that many took it as. I was simply asking if there was Scripture reference anywhere of the Apostle's using drama... Nothing more.

But since you seem to be so touchy and offended, could it be conviction?:wavey:

 

The funny thing is that Jesus used storytelling as a means to share--that is a precursor to the story telling of mimes or other dramas.

 

I'm as dumb as a rock when it comes to understand the dance as worship. I'm too dense to get it. Not blessed by it at all.

 

Drama, when used for outreach , is just Arminians trying to supplement the Gospel.

 

Back in my teen years my home church had as a seminary intern a young woman who produced several dramas, done not in the worship service but as an extra program. It was in acting in those dramas that I learned to train my memory for large chunks of material. I also learned how to get out of my shy self a bit!

I am sure it could be overdone, but occasionally I will do my sermon in character and costume, as if I were a certain Biblical character. It gives me freedom to get out from behind the pulpit and stride up and down the aisles, etc., delving into the feelings that a Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Paul, etc. communicates. People seem to find it very meaningful.

On at least one occasion -- a Reformation Sunday -- I did a non-Biblical character, Martin Luther. I thought it was a way to teach a bit of history but still, of course, focus on the central theme of justification by faith.

In the church where I am now a member, there is a young woman who is among the best interpretive readers I have ever heard. She is frequently asked to read the Scripture text before the sermon, and you FEEL the meaning of it. It is good to remember that there are several paths to learning, and discursive, logical dissertations are only one path.

 

Well, the Bible is a very dramatic book. It's one of the reasons I started reading it in the first place. I was fascinated by all the stories, even as a child. I don't know how you can avoid the drama in a worship service.

love,

Sopranette

 

Where do we go, Dan e.? The question was asked whether the apostles used drama. I (obviously wrongly) imagined that when you wrote, "Here we go", a list of bible references was to follow that would show that the apostles did indeed use drama.

 

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