This is a fun story. Finally after all these short little bare bone stories in Mark 1, we get to this fuller story to start Mark 2 - there is even some dialogue and conversation! Last week at Silver Lake, it was one we gave to a group to act out. Levi ended up being the Paralytic man - and was hoisted up on the back side of one of those small wooden benches and totally blocked out by the crowd as they tried to bring him to Jesus. They carried Levi way up in the air and over some more benches (the roof) to get him to Jesus. Fun!
When Micah (yes, that son of mine - assigned as worship leader for this Sunday) and I found a time to meet a little while ago to talk about this Scripture, we started wondered what this story looked like from the perspective of all the different characters. You know how when you tell a family story, and you get very different versions of what happened, we wondered if the same would have been true after this event happened. How different would the story be as told from the healed man as compared to the scribe, etc.
So for this Sunday, I have written 5 monologues from the perspective of a member of the crowd, one of the friends, a scribe, a disciple and the healed man himself. They all tell the story in a very different way, and all take away something very different from this interaction with Jesus. We even have 5 of our youth who will take on these characters. Hopefully this helps us all listen more closely to this story and put ourselves there before Jesus - taking in what we need to hear in terms of our own relationship with Jesus.
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