Readers' Theatre: 1 Corinthians 10: 1-13
Here’s a
readers’ theatre setting of 1 Corinthians 10: 1-13, the suggested epistle
reading for Lent 3, Year C.
Readers’ Theatre: 1 Corinthians 10:
1-13
One: I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers
and sisters,
about our ancestors in the
wilderness long ago.
All of them were guided by a cloud
that moved ahead of them,
and all of them walked through the
sea on dry ground.
In the cloud and in the sea,
all of them were baptized as
followers of Moses.
Two: All of them ate the same spiritual
food,
and all of them drank the same
spiritual water.
For they drank from the spiritual
rock that traveled with them,
and that rock was Christ.
One: Yet God was not pleased with most of them,
and their bodies were scattered in
the wilderness.
Two: These things happened as a warning to us,
so that we would not crave evil
things as they did,
or worship idols as some of them did.
As the Scriptures say,
One: The people celebrated with feasting and
drinking,
and they indulged in pagan revelry.
Two: And we must not engage in sexual immorality
as some of them did,
causing 23,000 of them to die in one
day.
One: Nor should we put Christ to the test,
as some of them did and then died
from snakebites.
Two: And don’t grumble as some of them did,
and then were destroyed by the angel
of death.
One: These things happened to them as examples
for us.
They were written down to warn us
who live at the end of the age.
Two: If you think you are standing strong, be
careful not to fall.
The temptations in your life are no different from what others
experience.
One: And God is faithful.
He will not allow the temptation to
be more than you can stand.
When you are tempted,
he will show you a way out so that
you can endure.
