The Repair
Youth Resources
REVIVING THE SPARK
Study Skits Of Biblical Truths For Youth
Characters:
Tilly
Seymour
Setting:
Tilly's kitchen
Materials Needed:
Telephone, phone book, tool box, directions
Costumes:
Tilly - Homemaker, hair up in curlers
Seymour - Coveralls
Tilly:
Oh dear, the Schmudruckers are due in one hour and nothing's going right today. What's that? (Looks under sink) Oh no, the pipe's broken under the sink! Plumber, I need a plumber. (She looks in the phone book) Smart Plumbing. (She dials) Hello, Smart Plumbing? This is Tilly Tominsky. My kitchen's flooding, I've got dinner guests coming in one hour - and my hair's a mess! Get over here. (Pauses to listen) It's 1802070 Hercules Street. (She slams down the phone. Seymour enters immediately after the phone is hung up)
Seymour: Smart Plumbing Seymour at your service. I see you have a problem. (He gets out his directions and begins to read them)
Tilly: What are you doing?
Seymour: These are the directions for fixing leaks under sinks.
Tilly: Well, I suppose, but can't you just fix it?
Seymour: It always pays to go over the directions. I can't get enough of them. I study them every day. Here, drill me on it. (He hands the paper to her)
Tilly: How to fix a leak under the sink. Step one ...
Seymour: Shut off the water.
Tilly: I'll show you where the shut-off valve is.
Seymour: Hold on. I don't think you grasp the significance of these words. Shut - a word of Anglo-Saxon origin. "To move so as to close an opening, to fasten, to seal."
Tilly: Wow! You really get into it.
Seymour: It's my trade, Madam. Water - also Anglo-Saxon. "A colorless, transparent liquid occurring on earth as rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. and falling as rain." Chemically a compound of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Its freezing point is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and it boils at 212 degrees.
Tilly: You know so many interesting things.
Seymour: I can recite every one of these instructions by heart. Each step gives direction and inspiration to my life. You should learn them, too. Go ahead and keep that copy. So long. I'll send you the bill later.
Tilly: Thanks. Good-bye. What an incredible man!
The Repair
Questions to consider:
1. What is the obvious problem here?
2. What are the instructions symbolic of?
3. What is the danger of studying the Scriptures, but never applying them to our personal lives?
The key point:
To study the Scriptures without application is like eating but never exercising or like studying the instructions but not fixing the leak. The Scriptures are meant to inspire us. They are to be "sweeter than honey to my mouth." But they are mainly to teach us what to do. We don't study all the angles of the term "good works." We go out and do "good works."
This isn't to say that there is no place for word studies, or prophecy studies, or historical backgrounds. All of these things are good if they have as their main emphasis the changing of our personal lives. Are they causing us to love God more? Is that love translated into practical application in daily living?
The alternative is to train ourselves in tacit disobedience. If we fail to make practical application, the word of God loses its freshness to us. Our ears become dull of hearing while we drift into spiritual slumber. Meanwhile, the world around us keeps sliding toward hell while we have nothing to tell them.
Tilly
Seymour
Setting:
Tilly's kitchen
Materials Needed:
Telephone, phone book, tool box, directions
Costumes:
Tilly - Homemaker, hair up in curlers
Seymour - Coveralls
Tilly:
Oh dear, the Schmudruckers are due in one hour and nothing's going right today. What's that? (Looks under sink) Oh no, the pipe's broken under the sink! Plumber, I need a plumber. (She looks in the phone book) Smart Plumbing. (She dials) Hello, Smart Plumbing? This is Tilly Tominsky. My kitchen's flooding, I've got dinner guests coming in one hour - and my hair's a mess! Get over here. (Pauses to listen) It's 1802070 Hercules Street. (She slams down the phone. Seymour enters immediately after the phone is hung up)
Seymour: Smart Plumbing Seymour at your service. I see you have a problem. (He gets out his directions and begins to read them)
Tilly: What are you doing?
Seymour: These are the directions for fixing leaks under sinks.
Tilly: Well, I suppose, but can't you just fix it?
Seymour: It always pays to go over the directions. I can't get enough of them. I study them every day. Here, drill me on it. (He hands the paper to her)
Tilly: How to fix a leak under the sink. Step one ...
Seymour: Shut off the water.
Tilly: I'll show you where the shut-off valve is.
Seymour: Hold on. I don't think you grasp the significance of these words. Shut - a word of Anglo-Saxon origin. "To move so as to close an opening, to fasten, to seal."
Tilly: Wow! You really get into it.
Seymour: It's my trade, Madam. Water - also Anglo-Saxon. "A colorless, transparent liquid occurring on earth as rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. and falling as rain." Chemically a compound of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Its freezing point is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and it boils at 212 degrees.
Tilly: You know so many interesting things.
Seymour: I can recite every one of these instructions by heart. Each step gives direction and inspiration to my life. You should learn them, too. Go ahead and keep that copy. So long. I'll send you the bill later.
Tilly: Thanks. Good-bye. What an incredible man!
The Repair
Questions to consider:
1. What is the obvious problem here?
2. What are the instructions symbolic of?
3. What is the danger of studying the Scriptures, but never applying them to our personal lives?
The key point:
To study the Scriptures without application is like eating but never exercising or like studying the instructions but not fixing the leak. The Scriptures are meant to inspire us. They are to be "sweeter than honey to my mouth." But they are mainly to teach us what to do. We don't study all the angles of the term "good works." We go out and do "good works."
This isn't to say that there is no place for word studies, or prophecy studies, or historical backgrounds. All of these things are good if they have as their main emphasis the changing of our personal lives. Are they causing us to love God more? Is that love translated into practical application in daily living?
The alternative is to train ourselves in tacit disobedience. If we fail to make practical application, the word of God loses its freshness to us. Our ears become dull of hearing while we drift into spiritual slumber. Meanwhile, the world around us keeps sliding toward hell while we have nothing to tell them.
