T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S Our Ever-Living Saviour An Easter Program Outlined by ETHEL S. LOW Modesto, California
April, 1941
I N MAKING a program for Easter, several matters must be consid ered. The program must be sim ple, as time for rehearsal is always too short. It should be elastic as to the number of participants. It must be adaptable to varied church back grounds and conditions. It must be Scriptural. It must have movement enough to escape monotony, and the eyes as well as ears should be getting something to remember. I have tried to consider these re quirements in planning this program. Instead of the detached Easter story, I have used Scripture to convey the thought of the One who is forever God, coming from the ivory palaces to die on the cross for sinners, being raised for their justification, ascend ing into heaven where He ever liveth to make intercession for His own. The program is tied together by the Reader, who should be the best reader available, as much depends on clear, distinct reading. There are twelve other characters who have individual parts, and a group of Pri mary children and a group of women. You can add more characters if you wish, such-as Moses, quoting Deuter onomy 18:15, sind Micah with his prophecy of Christ’s birth (Micah 5:2), or more New Testament char acters. (Costumes may be used or not, as tile leaders of the local church may prefer.) Now, let us discuss the accessories that make this a program instead of a Bible study. Have good music. Other songs can be substituted for some of those given, if they have the same thought. Use a stereopticon if it can be obtained. Put a colored cellophane over the lens for the tab leaux, and as a spotlight for the speakers. Detail one person to attend to turning lights on and off. One person must handle the stereopticon. These parts of the work should be done so smoothly that the attention of the congregation will not be dis tracted from the theme by the me chanics of operation. The program utilizes soloists, a
face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude” (Dan. 10:5, 6 ). Isaiah. “Therefore the Lord him self shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isa. 7:14). “For unto us a child is bom, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoul der: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isa. 9:6). (They leave the platform. Auditor ium lights on again.) Reader. “For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sac rifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me” (Heb. 10:4, 5). SONG. “One Day.” First stanza. PRIMARY SONG. Luther’s Cradle Hymn. Reader. The child Jesus grew into manhood in the despised town of Nazareth, was baptized by John the Baptist, was tempted of the devil, and began His earthly ministry by calling twelve men to walk with Him as His disciples. Four of these men, Ijeter and Andrew, James and John, were fishermen on the Sea of Galilee, and they left their nets and followed the Lord when He called them. They with the other disciples went with Him as He went through Judea and Galilee and Samaria, preaching and teaching and doing many mighty miracles. Everywhere the crowds fol lowed Him, and He healed all their diseases. Once He fed five thousand men with their women and children with the. lunch of a little lad, five loaves and two fishes. (Lights out. Spotlight on. While this portion of the narrative has been read, the four disciples have taken their places, two on each side
children’s chorus, and a chorus choir. Adapt the whole program to your own group. May the Holy Spirit so empower the Scripture that both per formers and audience may catch the vision of the Man in the glory who ever liveth! THE PROGRAM • OPENING SONG. “Praise Him! Praise Him!” , PRAYER. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND OF FERING. SONG. "Christ Arose.” SOLO. “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth,” from The Messiah (Handel). Reader. “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to ever lasting, thou art God” (Psa. 90:2). The Lord Jesus Christ is the Creator, for of Him we read, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:1-3). In Old Testament times, three men gave for us vivid testimonies of the ever-living Christ. Job, out of a heart tom by suffering and affliction, cried out for a Daysman, a Mediator, and caught a vision of the Redeemer. Daniel saw the Lord in His glory, and the Prophet Isaiah saw Him coming to earth as a Babe. (Auditorium light off. Spotlight on. Job, Daniel, and Isaiah enter while the Reader is speaking; they stand in the spotlight.) Job. “For I know that my Redeem er liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God” (Job 19:25, 26).' Daniel. “Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: Hig body also was like the beryl, and hip
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