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Puppet Show
CHARACTERS: Joey, (Joey is wearing a large torn
shirt), Luke, Patty
Joey: Oh,he's gonna kill me, I just know he's gonna
kill me! OH NO! Oh, what am I gonna do?
Luke: What's the matter, Joey?
Joey: It's my dad! I just know he's gonna kill me when he sees what
I've done to his favorite t-shirt!
Luke: Why? What did you do?
Joey: Well, I borrowed it to go playing in, and,
well, I was climbing this really great tree--It was taller than
a building-you should've seen it!
Luke: Cool! Then what?
Joey: I was up at the very top, when Mom called
me to come in, and get ready to go to town. "Right now!" she said,
so I knew she really meant it and I better hurry, and I was hurrying...
and, well, I ripped it!
Luke: OH NO! How bad?
Joey: Pretty bad, right in the front, too, see?
Luke: Oh, that is bad! Boy, Joey, you are in big
trouble!
Joey: I know! What am I gonna do? What AM I gonna
do?
Luke: Well, let's think about this. I came over
to show you my new cool t-shirt.
I just got it today! But your problem is more important!
Let's see, what can we do to help you....hmmm....Hey! I got an idea!
We can cut a piece out of my new shirt, and sew it onto your Dad's
old favorite shirt! It'll be good as new!
Joey: You can sew?
Luke: No, but I've seen my Mom do it.....I bet
we can figure it out! Let's go!
Joey: OK, boy, Luke, it's a good thing that I have
such smart friends!
Luke: Yeah, you are really lucky to have ol' Luke
around, all right! Let's go get busy!
Joey: OK
Puppets down
Ask: What do you think of Luke's plan? Is it a good
one? Will Joey's Dad know that his shirt got damaged? Could Luke's
plan get him into trouble?
Puppets Up
Luke: Well, that didn't work out the way I hoped
it would!
Joey: I'd say not! Now not only am I in trouble,
YOU are, too, and my Dad says he can never wear his favorite shirt
again, that it's ruined! We tried so hard to fix it!
Luke: Yeah, well, we messed up! Now I don't have
a new shirt, and your Dad doesn't have his old one!
(both sigh)
Patty up: Hey, guys! Why the sad faces?
Luke: We've had a bad day. See, first Joey borrowed
his dads favorite t-shirt, and tore it BAD...
Patty: Oh, oh! What did he say when you told him,
Joey?
Joey: Wait, that's not all! See, we thought Luke
had a good idea... He had a new t-shirt, and...
Luke: Yeah, I told Joey we could take some material
off of that, and sew up the big hole in his dad's shirt...
Patty: You thought that was a good idea?
Luke: At the time we did...
Joey: Now we know it wasn't.....
Luke: Now both our folks are mad at us!
Patty: Well, you can't blame them! You took something
that wasn't yours, and damaged it.
Joey: Yeah, I did, that was bad..
Patty: Luke, then you ruined a perfectly good, new
shirt to try and cover it up!
Luke: Dumb, I know, I see that now!
Patty: It's kinda funny, but did you know that Jesus
had a parable about that, in Matthew 9:16, and in Mark 2;21, and
in Luke 5:36? Can one of you out there read Matthew 9:16 for me?
In it, He isn't really talking about clothes, tho'.
Joey: He's not?
Luke: What's He really talking about?
Patty: He's talking about how we can't just take
a piece of Christianity, which is being a follower of Jesus, and
stick it in our old lives
. Luke: So, like, we can't say, "Oh, doing good
for others is a good thing, I will do that, but I won't let Jesus
have the rest of my life!"
Patty: Exactly that! We know the Bible says when
we ask Jesus to be the boss of our life, and forgive us of all of
our sins, He does that, and He makes us a NEW person. We are not
the same anymore, and that is why we can be different in the way
we act.
Joey: So, if you say you want to do the good things
without Jesus making you new inside, it won't work! Just like me
and Luke patching Dad's shirt didn't work!
Patty: Right! I'm SO glad we've asked Jesus to make
us new!
Luke: Yeah, me too! I wouldn't want to end up like
Joey's Dad's shirt.
Patty : Me either! (puppet down)
Luke: It wasn't pretty! (puppet down)
Joey: Nope, Dad was M A D! Hey, guys, want to come
over to my house? I think I'd like some protection! (puppet down)
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