Here’s a simple readers’ theatre setting of Luke 14:
1, 7-14. It is set for two voices: Jesus, and a narrator.
Readers’
Theatre
(Luke 14: 1, 7-14)
One
Sabbath day Jesus went to eat dinner
in
the home of a leader of the Pharisees,
and
the people were watching him closely.
When
Jesus noticed that all who had come to the dinner
were
trying to sit in the seats of honor near the head of the table,
he
gave them this advice:
When you are invited
to a wedding feast,
don’t sit in the seat
of honor.
What if someone who
is more distinguished than you has also been invited?
The host will come
and say, ‘Give this person your seat.’
Then you will be
embarrassed,
and you will have to
take whatever seat is left at the foot of the table!
Instead, take the
lowest place at the foot of the table.
Then when your host
sees you, he will come and say,
‘Friend, we have a
better place for you!’
Then you will be
honored in front of all the other guests.
For those who exalt
themselves will be humbled,
and those who humble
themselves will be exalted.
Then
Jesus turned to his host.
When you put on a
luncheon or a banquet
don’t invite your
friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors.
For they will invite
you back, and that will be your only reward.
Instead, invite the
poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
Then at the
resurrection of the righteous,
God will reward you
for inviting those who could not repay you.
