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Inscription: Writing God’s Words on Our Hearts & Minds
Part 63: A Heart of Compassion
Jonah
January 15, 2012
A WHALE OF A TALE
This week we continue our series through the Bible and we are now on Jonah.
Jonah is without a doubt the best known of the prophets.
Even those who know nothing about the Bible typically have some knowledge of “JONAH and the WHALE.”
~* Rather than doing a regular sermon, I decided it would be fun to REDISCOVER the story of Jonah as a story.
The emphasis is on “REDISCOVER”; I want us to hear the story as the original readers would have heard it, so I have reset it in WW II, and replaced Nineveh with NAZI GERMANY.
~* I want us to have the same EMOTIONAL REACTION to the story as they would have.
I know that I am taking a couple of LIBERTIES, so I encourage you to re-read the story for yourself after watching this.
SOUND EFFECTS
Before we begin, we are going to need some sound effects at three points in the play:
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The STORM: We will need wind and thunder [practice].
2. The fish VOMITING up Jonah [practice].
Potty humor – it works ever time.
3. The dry EAST WIND [practice].
PRAYER [Actors take places]
Even as we enjoy this story, help us to learn about your compassion.
And help us to teach your truth to our children in engaging ways.
ACT I: DISOBEDIENCE
Narrator:
Act I, Disobedience.
This story takes place during in darkest days of World War II.
Germany tanks had rolled through France, her bombers had decimated Poland, and Hitler’s concentration camps were working with brutal efficiency to eliminate the Jewish people from the face of the earth.
In those days, the Word of the Lord came to Jonah, a Jewish prophet living in London.
God:
Jonah, get up right now and go to the city of Berlin and preach against it, because the stench of its wickedness has come before me.
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