Here’s a readers’ theatre setting of 1 Corinthians
12:1-11. It is set for two voices.
Readers’ Theatre
1 Corinthians 12: 1-11
One: Now, dear
brothers and sisters,
regarding
your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us.
I don’t
want you to misunderstand this.
You know
that when you were still pagans,
you were
led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols.
So I want
you to know that no one speaking
by the
Spirit of God will curse Jesus,
and no one
can say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.
Two: There are
different kinds of spiritual gifts,
but the
same Spirit is the source of them all.
There are
different kinds of service,
but we
serve the same Lord.
One: God works
in different ways,
but it is
the same God who does the work in all of us.
Two: A spiritual
gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.
To one
person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice;
to another the same Spirit gives a
message of special knowledge.
One: The same Spirit gives great faith to
another,
and to someone else the one Spirit
gives the gift of healing.
Two: He gives one person the power to
perform miracles,
and another the ability to prophesy.
One: He gives someone else the ability to
discern
whether a message is from the Spirit
of God or from another spirit.
Still another person is given the
ability to speak in unknown languages,
while another is given the ability
to interpret what is being said.
Two: It is the one and only Spirit who
distributes all these gifts.
He alone decides which gift each
person should have.
