SKIT 5-RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY!
Materials:
Umbrella, life jacket, Bible
David walks in carrying an open umbrella and
wearing a rain jacket. He looks
around nervously as
if expecting tragedy to strike at any
moment.
Pastor:
Pastor enters.
Good
morning, David. What's up?
David:
(Looks up
fearfully, jumps and says ... ) Where? What?
What did you see-up?
Pastor:
No, David. Nothing's
up. All I said was "What's
up?"
David:
That's what I thought you said!
I've been looking up all day long. And
I'm afraid.
Pastor:
What are you afraid of, David?
David:
I'm afraid of a flood!
Pastor:
A flood? But
the sun is out. (if it's raining in your
area, have Pastor say, 'But the weather man says it's supposed to stop raining tomorrow.")
David:
Well, I finally took your advice, Pastor. I started
reading the Book of Beginnings, you know, the Book of Genesis?
Pastor:
Good for you, David!
David:
Yeah, but it talks about this great big flood, and
I'm afraid I'm going to get caught in it! Do you know where a guy could get a
really big boat?
Pastor:
David, how far did you read?
David:
Well, I read about this guy who built the ark.
Pastor:
Noah?
David:
Yeah
that's his name, Noah. So many
people were wicked in those days. And then all the people who didn't believe God
stayed outside the ark - and then it started to rain!
Pastor: Is
that how far you read?
David:
Well no. I read about how it rained forty days and
forty nights, and the water got higher than the mountains!
That's when I went and got my umbrella and my rain
jacket, and I have been looking for a boat ever since!
Pastor:
David, my friend, you didn't read far enough!
The rain stopped after the fourty days.
David:
It did?
Pastor:
Yes, and Noah and his family were saved because they believed
God, and obeyed God.
David:
Really?
Pastor:
Yes, they were.
And God promised never to flood the entire earth with a flood again.
David:
(Putting
umbrella down.) He did? Wow! I really should
have kept reading!
Pastor:
God's Word the Bible is always true, David.
You can trust it. You can believe every word of it.
You just have to keep reading it! When God said that He'd never again
flood the whole earth, He meant it. There
has never been another flood like the one you read about in Genesis.
David:
(Removing life
jacket.) Well,
I guess I
won’t need to worry about the flood, will I?
Pastor:
I guess not! But David, I’d hold onto my umbrella
if I were you
David: Why’s that?
Pastor: Remember – we live
in Ireland! We still get “normal” rain.
David: Oh yeah. And pastor, did you still want another
banana? I think I have one left?
Both leave the area.