Two Services With No Drama?!

Hard to believe, we didn't have a skit in either service this past Sunday. I can barely remember when a drama was an unexpected, even daring element in a Morning Worship service at Eastern Heights; now the skits are a regular, expected segment of the 11:00 hour (or hour-and-fifteen). But we try not to get into ruts too deeply, and aim to craft each service independently around the message of the sermon. This Sunday morning he was speaking on "whatsoever things are true," and rather than a drama, we did a demonstration based on some statistics from Barna. Their updates are always interesting. The one we culled from this week is called

Most American Christians Do Not Believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit Exist

Then, for the evening service we crafted a service that was dramatic in a lot of ways, but it didn't contain "a drama." People arrived and were directed downstairs where they got a "round trip ticket" and a "temporary passport" to heaven. Then they came up to the sanctuary, where we had a "throne" set up with a couple of large banners, and their ticket was collected. After an introduction, the service intertwined scripture, exposition, and congregational singing. At the end, in lieu of casting down crowns, which none of us have yet, everyone had a card on which they could express what they were giving to the Lord.

I got to do the intro. It was inspired by something Steve Harvey did on his DVD Don't Trip, He Ain't Through With Me Yet. If you watch it on Netflix you can go to about 1:12 or so and see him do what it would be like if he got to introduce the second coming. I didn't do his, but I tried to get the flavor of it similar!

So no drama? Maybe that's not exactly true, but no skit, and that's unusual these days.