THE STORYTELLER'S BIBLE
Act VII - Acts and the Epistles, Scene 1
Script by Bob Allen
For four voices

Voice two should be female.  The other voices can be either male or female.

Scene changes are indicated by numbers and should be marked by a pause,

accompanied by a re-arrangement of the positions of the speakers.  Suggested staging and 

movements are included in the text. 

PART SEVEN: ACTS AND THE PAULINE EPISTLES

Scene 1

                                    (READER # 4 ENTERS FROM RIGHT) 

VOICE FOUR:          I really appreciate all of you coming here today.  You are all my dear friends and I covet your prayers and wise counsel.  I have felt impressed of late with the burden to write another book.  All of you have read my first book, the one I wrote for our good friend Theophilus, but which has enjoyed a circulation far beyond anything he or I could ever have envisioned.  I understand that some people are starting to call it the Gospel According To Luke.  That is unfortunate.  The Good News Concerning Jesus Christ would be a much better title.    Many of you have shared with me the excitement you felt when reading my first book.  There have been so many stories written about those days, and I just wanted to set things down in order so people would get the narrative straight--right through to the events that happened after His resurrection.  None of us wanted those forty days to end, but they did—and that was where my first book ended.  The life of Christ was over.  The incarnation was complete.  His ascension had been witnessed by many of His followers and He was gone.  The most exciting days of history were history—never to be repeated.

                                    So why another book?  Why not just read and re-read the life of Christ and study His words and rejoice over His deeds?  Well—I have become convinced by the Spirit of God that the life of Christ is not over!  And I don’t just mean that He is alive and back in heaven.  I mean that the life of Christ on earth is not over.  There is another chapter being written right now concerning what He did and what He taught.           Remember when He told His disciples, “I will build my church?”  Well—that’s it!  His work goes on.  He lives in us and we are now, in a very real sense, the incarnation of Christ on the earth.  We are His body.  His work and His words have been entrusted to us and we are writing Book II with our lives.

                                    So that’s why I want to write another book.  Please don’t call it the Acts of the Apostles.  Call it The Acts of Jesus Christ—Book II.