The Cloaking Device
Youth Resources
REVIVING THE SPARK
Study Skits Of Biblical Truths For Youth
This sketch is not really about cars and a cloaking device. It can apply to any kind of illicit sin, but it's specifically about sex before marriage. The cloaking device is a condom.
Characters: (two high school students)
Neville
Brigette
(Brigette is holding a mirror and prettying her face. Enter Neville)
Neville: Hey, Brigette, check this out!
Brigette: What's that thing, Neville?
Neville: (Don't show a condom here. Show some weird-looking contraption) It's a cloaking device. Ever watch Star Trek?
Brigette: Yeah. It's supposed to make things invisible.
Neville: You got it. Now I can drive any way I want and never get caught. Everybody's getting them.
Brigette: But you can still hit things, can't you?
Neville: Not me. I'm too good a driver.
Brigette: Neville, there's a reason for traffic laws and cops and getting busted. It's to keep us from killing each other.
Neville: It's to keep us from having fun. Come on, Brigette. I'm taking you for the ride of your life. (He tugs at her but she won't move) What's the matter?
Brigette: You just don't get it, Neville. Since you think you can't get caught, you'll drive even crazier than before. And since no one can see you, you're even more likely to get hit. I don't intend to be in your car when that happens. I don't have a death wish.
Neville: If you really loved me, you'd do it.
The Cloaking Device
Questions to consider:
1. Is it okay to do wrong as long as we don't get caught?
2. What is the cloaking device?
3. What are some other cloaking devices we use?
a. lying
b. favors with ulterior motives
c. abortion
4. Is "everybody's doing it" a good reason to "do it"?
5. Can we ultimately hide anything? (Hebrews 4:13)
The key point:
There is a reason for God's laws. They are meant to protect us - not restrict us. A mother won't allow her small child to play in the street, not because she wants to stifle her child's freedom, but because she doesn't want him to be hit by a car.
But supposing the same child figures out a way to get into the street without being caught. He congratulates himself on his cleverness. If he doesn't get hit, he thinks he's figured out a way to beat the system. He becomes more emboldened in his disobedience. Such a habit pattern will ultimately catch up with him. So it is when we sin and think there won't be consequences. Our arrogant flaunting of God's laws will come back to haunt us.
Characters: (two high school students)
Neville
Brigette
(Brigette is holding a mirror and prettying her face. Enter Neville)
Neville: Hey, Brigette, check this out!
Brigette: What's that thing, Neville?
Neville: (Don't show a condom here. Show some weird-looking contraption) It's a cloaking device. Ever watch Star Trek?
Brigette: Yeah. It's supposed to make things invisible.
Neville: You got it. Now I can drive any way I want and never get caught. Everybody's getting them.
Brigette: But you can still hit things, can't you?
Neville: Not me. I'm too good a driver.
Brigette: Neville, there's a reason for traffic laws and cops and getting busted. It's to keep us from killing each other.
Neville: It's to keep us from having fun. Come on, Brigette. I'm taking you for the ride of your life. (He tugs at her but she won't move) What's the matter?
Brigette: You just don't get it, Neville. Since you think you can't get caught, you'll drive even crazier than before. And since no one can see you, you're even more likely to get hit. I don't intend to be in your car when that happens. I don't have a death wish.
Neville: If you really loved me, you'd do it.
The Cloaking Device
Questions to consider:
1. Is it okay to do wrong as long as we don't get caught?
2. What is the cloaking device?
3. What are some other cloaking devices we use?
a. lying
b. favors with ulterior motives
c. abortion
4. Is "everybody's doing it" a good reason to "do it"?
5. Can we ultimately hide anything? (Hebrews 4:13)
The key point:
There is a reason for God's laws. They are meant to protect us - not restrict us. A mother won't allow her small child to play in the street, not because she wants to stifle her child's freedom, but because she doesn't want him to be hit by a car.
But supposing the same child figures out a way to get into the street without being caught. He congratulates himself on his cleverness. If he doesn't get hit, he thinks he's figured out a way to beat the system. He becomes more emboldened in his disobedience. Such a habit pattern will ultimately catch up with him. So it is when we sin and think there won't be consequences. Our arrogant flaunting of God's laws will come back to haunt us.
