Walk On
By: Marvin Lansverk
Church Year: Season of Lent and Easter
Title: Walk On
Bible Text: Matthew, the Road to Emmaus
Theme:
Puppets: Barnabas and Lorenzo
People: Kids
Props: Sunglasses and moustache (thin horizontal strip cut out of construction paper) for Lorenzo
Songs: Barnabas and Lorenzo chant a rap together
[Barnabas and Lorenzo are up front, Lorenzo wearing sunglasses and pencil thin mustache]
Barnabas: Buenos dias boys and girls. How is everybody today?
Lorenzo: [In sunglasses and mustache] Hola kids. You look marvelous this morning, simply marvelous.
Barnabas: And you, Lorenzo, you look…you look…different. Is everything alright?
Lorenzo: Of course. Don’t you recognize contemporeneity when you see it?
Barnabas: Contemporeneity?
Lorenzo: Contemporeneity. You know, the state of being “with it,” “up to date,” as in “contemporary.”
Barnabas: As in “cool?”
Lorenzo: Cool, schmool. That word is so passé. Contemporeneity is the new cool word for being cool.
Barnabas: But, but…how does one use it? When someone does something coo…I mean “with it,” you don’t say: “Wow, that thing you just did was really, like contemporaneous, man.” I mean, by the time you got done saying all that, whatever you’d done that was cool would probably already be passé too, wouldn’t it?
Lorenzo: Ah. That’s just it. Contemporeneity isn’t a word you have to say, it’s just a thing, an “isness,” so to speak. That’s what makes it so cool. I mean contemporaneous.
Barnabas: Cool. I mean contemporaneous, man! But, don’t you think we might stop being contemporaneous up here long enough that we could actually do today’s puppet show?
Lorenzo: Ah. But puppet shows are so uncontemporaneous.
Barnabas: Whaaat?!?
Lorenzo: As in passé. I was thinking instead that it would be much more hip to be in a rock band than in a puppet show. [Play air guitar and hum: doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo, do] Don’t you think? Then instead of puppeting up here each week, we could sing, and jump around, and play guitars, and shake our heads, and get famous.
Barnabas: But we are puppets.
Lorenzo: OK, ok, so we’ll be puppet rock stars. But instead of calling us Barnabas and Olivia, which is a title I never really understood very well anyway. I mean the Barnabas part seems ok, but when I’m here, then it’s not really [singing] Barnabas and Olivia. So I thought the name of our rock band should be “Lorenzo and the Pencil Thin Mustachios.”
Barnabas: Maybe we can work on the name later… Wait a minute!!! What am I talking about? As if there is going to be a later. For your idea, I mean, as if we were actually going to become a puppet rock band.
Lorenzo: Well, how about if we just try it, this once. Just for today.
Barnabas: But, but.
Lorenzo: Please? Besides, Pastor Dave’s not here.
Barnabas: Ok. But only if it has to do with today’s Bible story.
Lorenzo: [Scoff weirdly] Of course it does…So, what is today’s Bible story?
Barnabas: It’s about the road to Emmaus! You know, when a couple of Jesus’ followers were walking towards the city of Emmaus, alone, still terrified and lost, because Jesus, their Lord, the Lord, had been crucified.
Lorenzo: Ah. I know this one. And then suddenly the risen Jesus appeared on the road with them, but somehow the disciples didn’t recognize him. And Jesus came up behind them and said, “hey, what’s up?”
Barnabas: And they said, “What’s up? Are you the only person in Jerusalem who doesn’t know what’s been happening the last few days, who hasn’t been keeping up with contemporaneous events? [Barnabas and Lorenzo both look at each other]. Don’t you know that they have taken Jesus of Nazareth, and crucified him, Jesus, who was the Messiah, but now he’s dead, dead for three days.
Lorenzo: And not only that, but then this morning, when some of our friends went to the tomb to be near Jesus’ body, the tomb was open, and his body was gone, and there were angels there instead, and they were saying that Jesus was alive. And…and…we just don’t understand what it all means, which is why we are sad.
Barnabas: And there on the road, Jesus must have wanted to say something like…[hold up hands], “you big bozos, don’t you get it? But instead, he explained scripture to them, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, until they invited him to dinner with them, and then, when they were breaking bread, they finally saw…they understood…they realized…it was the risen Lord. And he vanished from their sight.
Lorenzo: Ah. Now listen to this: The Road to Emmaus. [Barnabas chanting, with Lorenzo joining him on the capitalized rhymes]
Jesus’ friends were walkin down the road
The road they were walkin to EMMAUS
Their world had just ended with the death of the Lord
Events have conspired to BETRAY US.
When there, in their midst, a stranger appeared
“What’s the matter,” he said, what’s the BIG FUSS?
“You haven’t heard? Not a word?—Then you’re the only one.
Come on then, we’ll tell you, come this WAY WITH US.
We’d had big plans for the Kingdom of God
With Jesus there to CONVEY US
His message of peace and love to us all
Nothing could possibly DELAY US
But it did. They killed him. And we don’t know what to do.
Nothing’s left. All that is, just DISMAYS US.
Now it is over and all done—and we are on the run.
And our lives have become a CLICHÉ TO US.
Then he said: “think, friends, you know what has been writ
By the prophets who were sent to ALLAY US
And your fears, through the years, listen all ye who have ears
This is God’s plan, it’s OK FOR US.”
So we begged him to stay, to eat with us that day
At the table we said, please PRAY WITH US.
And he did: [Stop singing, Lorenzo takes off glasses and moustache…speaking slowly and emphatically now]
Lorenzo: He said: “this is my body, broken for you…
This is my blood shed for you…Do this in remembrance of me.”
And we did…We remembered…And we recognized him…It was Jesus. He was alive. Our Lord…The one who had PAID FOR US.
Barnabas: Wow. But what happened to being “with it,” with contemporaneity?
Lorenzo: I guess you don’t really need cool when you’re dealing with timeless truth and boundless love. [Both look at each other, shrug, and grin]
All: Amen!! Jesus is alive. Now, is this a great day or what?
Church Year: Season of Lent and Easter
Title: Walk On
Bible Text: Matthew, the Road to Emmaus
Theme:
Puppets: Barnabas and Lorenzo
People: Kids
Props: Sunglasses and moustache (thin horizontal strip cut out of construction paper) for Lorenzo
Songs: Barnabas and Lorenzo chant a rap together
[Barnabas and Lorenzo are up front, Lorenzo wearing sunglasses and pencil thin mustache]
Barnabas: Buenos dias boys and girls. How is everybody today?
Lorenzo: [In sunglasses and mustache] Hola kids. You look marvelous this morning, simply marvelous.
Barnabas: And you, Lorenzo, you look…you look…different. Is everything alright?
Lorenzo: Of course. Don’t you recognize contemporeneity when you see it?
Barnabas: Contemporeneity?
Lorenzo: Contemporeneity. You know, the state of being “with it,” “up to date,” as in “contemporary.”
Barnabas: As in “cool?”
Lorenzo: Cool, schmool. That word is so passé. Contemporeneity is the new cool word for being cool.
Barnabas: But, but…how does one use it? When someone does something coo…I mean “with it,” you don’t say: “Wow, that thing you just did was really, like contemporaneous, man.” I mean, by the time you got done saying all that, whatever you’d done that was cool would probably already be passé too, wouldn’t it?
Lorenzo: Ah. That’s just it. Contemporeneity isn’t a word you have to say, it’s just a thing, an “isness,” so to speak. That’s what makes it so cool. I mean contemporaneous.
Barnabas: Cool. I mean contemporaneous, man! But, don’t you think we might stop being contemporaneous up here long enough that we could actually do today’s puppet show?
Lorenzo: Ah. But puppet shows are so uncontemporaneous.
Barnabas: Whaaat?!?
Lorenzo: As in passé. I was thinking instead that it would be much more hip to be in a rock band than in a puppet show. [Play air guitar and hum: doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo, do] Don’t you think? Then instead of puppeting up here each week, we could sing, and jump around, and play guitars, and shake our heads, and get famous.
Barnabas: But we are puppets.
Lorenzo: OK, ok, so we’ll be puppet rock stars. But instead of calling us Barnabas and Olivia, which is a title I never really understood very well anyway. I mean the Barnabas part seems ok, but when I’m here, then it’s not really [singing] Barnabas and Olivia. So I thought the name of our rock band should be “Lorenzo and the Pencil Thin Mustachios.”
Barnabas: Maybe we can work on the name later… Wait a minute!!! What am I talking about? As if there is going to be a later. For your idea, I mean, as if we were actually going to become a puppet rock band.
Lorenzo: Well, how about if we just try it, this once. Just for today.
Barnabas: But, but.
Lorenzo: Please? Besides, Pastor Dave’s not here.
Barnabas: Ok. But only if it has to do with today’s Bible story.
Lorenzo: [Scoff weirdly] Of course it does…So, what is today’s Bible story?
Barnabas: It’s about the road to Emmaus! You know, when a couple of Jesus’ followers were walking towards the city of Emmaus, alone, still terrified and lost, because Jesus, their Lord, the Lord, had been crucified.
Lorenzo: Ah. I know this one. And then suddenly the risen Jesus appeared on the road with them, but somehow the disciples didn’t recognize him. And Jesus came up behind them and said, “hey, what’s up?”
Barnabas: And they said, “What’s up? Are you the only person in Jerusalem who doesn’t know what’s been happening the last few days, who hasn’t been keeping up with contemporaneous events? [Barnabas and Lorenzo both look at each other]. Don’t you know that they have taken Jesus of Nazareth, and crucified him, Jesus, who was the Messiah, but now he’s dead, dead for three days.
Lorenzo: And not only that, but then this morning, when some of our friends went to the tomb to be near Jesus’ body, the tomb was open, and his body was gone, and there were angels there instead, and they were saying that Jesus was alive. And…and…we just don’t understand what it all means, which is why we are sad.
Barnabas: And there on the road, Jesus must have wanted to say something like…[hold up hands], “you big bozos, don’t you get it? But instead, he explained scripture to them, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, until they invited him to dinner with them, and then, when they were breaking bread, they finally saw…they understood…they realized…it was the risen Lord. And he vanished from their sight.
Lorenzo: Ah. Now listen to this: The Road to Emmaus. [Barnabas chanting, with Lorenzo joining him on the capitalized rhymes]
Jesus’ friends were walkin down the road
The road they were walkin to EMMAUS
Their world had just ended with the death of the Lord
Events have conspired to BETRAY US.
When there, in their midst, a stranger appeared
“What’s the matter,” he said, what’s the BIG FUSS?
“You haven’t heard? Not a word?—Then you’re the only one.
Come on then, we’ll tell you, come this WAY WITH US.
We’d had big plans for the Kingdom of God
With Jesus there to CONVEY US
His message of peace and love to us all
Nothing could possibly DELAY US
But it did. They killed him. And we don’t know what to do.
Nothing’s left. All that is, just DISMAYS US.
Now it is over and all done—and we are on the run.
And our lives have become a CLICHÉ TO US.
Then he said: “think, friends, you know what has been writ
By the prophets who were sent to ALLAY US
And your fears, through the years, listen all ye who have ears
This is God’s plan, it’s OK FOR US.”
So we begged him to stay, to eat with us that day
At the table we said, please PRAY WITH US.
And he did: [Stop singing, Lorenzo takes off glasses and moustache…speaking slowly and emphatically now]
Lorenzo: He said: “this is my body, broken for you…
This is my blood shed for you…Do this in remembrance of me.”
And we did…We remembered…And we recognized him…It was Jesus. He was alive. Our Lord…The one who had PAID FOR US.
Barnabas: Wow. But what happened to being “with it,” with contemporaneity?
Lorenzo: I guess you don’t really need cool when you’re dealing with timeless truth and boundless love. [Both look at each other, shrug, and grin]
All: Amen!! Jesus is alive. Now, is this a great day or what?
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