Here’s a readers’ theatre setting of Colossians 3:
1-11. It is set for two voices.
Readers’ Theatre: Colossians 3: 1-11
One: Since you have been raised to new life with
Christ,
set
your sights on the realities of heaven,
where
Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
Two: Think about the things of heaven, not the
things of earth.
For you
died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.
One: And when Christ, who is your life, is
revealed to the whole world,
you
will share in all his glory.
Two: So put to death the sinful, earthly things
lurking within you.
Have
nothing to do with sexual immorality,
impurity,
lust, and evil desires.
One: Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an
idolater,
worshiping
the things of this world.
Because
of these sins, the anger of God is coming.
Two: You used to do these things when your life
was still part of this world.
But now is the time to get rid of
anger, rage,
malicious
behavior, slander, and dirty language.
One: Don’t lie to each other,
for you
have stripped off your old sinful nature
and all
its wicked deeds.
Two: Put on your new nature,
and be
renewed as you learn to know your Creator
and
become like him.
One: In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you
are a Jew or a Gentile,
circumcised
or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free.
Two: Christ is all that matters,
and he
lives in all of us.
