1. And now it’s time for Genesis 3:8-9 B. Cartoon Reader's Theater
Text & Context
This cartoon Bible story gives guests a context for today’s verse.
PRINT the Reader's Theater scripts provided, on the following six Notes Pages.
CHOOSE readers for each part.
PRACTICE, practice, practice!
PRESENT with power, poise and pizzazz!
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2. The Fall SLIDE 1 Click to Continue Reader's Theater Script – BM02
Genesis 3:8-9
Voices: (Making the sound of the birds)
Narrator: God placed the first man and woman in a beautiful garden and told them they could run the place.
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3. Reader’s Theater - Slide 2 (Click to advance)
Voices: “You can eat of every tree here, except the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil!”
Narrator: Said God.
Voices: “If you eat of that tree, you will die!”
(Off stage a piano plays the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony)
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4. Reader’s Theater - Slide 3 (Click to advance)
Narrator: Things were going along mighty fine until a serpent slithered down the tree one day and tempted Eve.
Serpent: (Lisping and sticking tongue out) Did God really ssssay you would die? Naw, you won’t die! You will become like God, knowing good from evil! Go on. Take it. One little bite isssssn’t gonna kill ya…”
Narrator: The fruit looked tasty so she took one little bite.
(Off stage a piano plays the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony)
Girls: Then another.
(Off stage a piano plays the second four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony)
Boys: Then she gave some to Adam.
Narrator: Suddenly everything changed.
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5. Reader’s Theater - Slide 4 (Click to advance)
Narrator: They felt naked and ashamed, and they ran and hid. Then they heard…
Girls: (whispering) They heard…
Boys: (whistling like the wind)
Narrator: The sound…
Girls: (whispering) The sound…
Boys: (whistling louder)
Narrator: Of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze.
Voices: (speaking) At the time of the evening breeze.
Narrator: At the time of the evening breeze.
Voices: (speaking louder) At the time of the evening breeze.
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6. Reader’s Theater - Slide 5 (Click to advance)
Narrator: And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him…
Voices: (shouting) Where are you?
Narrator: But the Lord God called to the man and said to him…
Voices: (shouting louder) Where are you?
Narrator: (pause) Where are you?
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7. Reader’s Theater - Slide 6 (Click to advance)
Narrator: Adam and Eve got what they wanted, and more. They now knew good from evil, and with that knowledge came sin and death. God sent them away from the garden, but never stopped loving them. They bore children…
Girls: And it hurt something fierce!
Narrator: And their children bore more children.
Boys: And so on.
Girls: And so on.
Narrator: And so from one man and one woman the whole earth was populated.
(Applause)
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