Here’s a readers’ theatre setting of Colossians 2:
6-19. It is set for two voices.
Readers’
Theatre: Colossians 2: 6-19
One: And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus
as your Lord,
you must continue to follow him.
Two: Let your roots grow down into him,
and let your lives be built on him.
One: Then your faith will grow strong in the
truth you were taught,
and you will overflow with thankfulness.
Two; Don’t let anyone distract you
with empty philosophies and high-sounding
nonsense
that come from human thinking
and from the spiritual powers of this
world
rather than from Christ.
One: For in Christ lives all the fullness of God
in a human body.
So you also are complete through your union
with Christ,
who is the head over every ruler and
authority.
Two; When you came to Christ, you were
“circumcised,”
but not by a physical procedure.
Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—
the cutting away of your sinful nature.
One: For you were buried with Christ when you
were baptized.
And with him you were raised to new life
because you trusted the mighty power of God,
who raised Christ from the dead.
Two: You were dead because of your sins
and because your sinful nature was not yet
cut away.
One: Then God made you alive with Christ,
for he forgave all our sins.
He canceled the record of the charges against
us
and took it away by nailing it to the
cross.
Two: In this way, he disarmed the spiritual
rulers and authorities.
He shamed them publicly by his victory over
them on the cross.
One: So don’t let anyone condemn you for what
you eat or drink,
or for not celebrating certain holy days
or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.
For these rules are only shadows of the
reality yet to come.
Two: And Christ himself is that reality.
One: Don’t let anyone condemn you by insisting
on pious self-denial
or the worship of angels,
saying they have had visions about these
things.
Their sinful minds have made them
proud,
and they are not connected to Christ, the
head of the body.
Two: For it is Christ who holds the whole body
together
with its joints and ligaments,
and it grows as God nourishes it.
