PUPPETS:
Gerry, and Pastor
PROPS:
None
GOAL:
To show what happens at the resurrection!
Gerry:
Good
morning everybody!
Pastor:
Good
morning Gerry! What are you going to teach us about this morning?
Gerry:
Heh,
heh. I am going to show everybody what happened 2,000 years ago on this very
day! Resurrection Sunday!
Pastor:
Really?!
How?
Gerry:
You
are going to help me (heh heh) - and together, we can all learn what
“resurrection” means!
Pastor:
Great!
What do I do first?
Gerry:
Nothin’!
Just listen.
Boys
and girls, I am a puppet, right? So, what makes me alive? What makes me talk and
move? That’s right - a hand inside me!
What
happens when you take that hand out? (no more life - Gerry is then left limp on
the stage)
Pastor:
I
get it! Our skin, and our bodies are like puppets. Something has to be inside.
God calls that something the SOUL!
But
when we die, the SOUL leaves the body, and the body has no more life. The SOUL
lives on, either in heaven with Jesus, or in hell with the devil.
Until…
(Pastor places his hand back inside the puppet) …the
resurrection!
Gerry:
Ta
da! Heh heh! When the preacher put his hand back inside me, I can move again,
and talk again, and sing again. That’s what happened at Christ’s
resurrection! His body died on the cross and went into the grave. And three days
later, He got up out of the grave!
Pastor:
And
where does He live now Gerry?
Gerry:
In
heaven?
Pastor:
That’s
right! And in my heart, because I ask Him to live there as my Saviour! And even
though this body may die, one day it will live again, all because Jesus defeated
death, and brought to us everlasting LIFE!
Thank
you Gerry! That was a great lesson! Wasn’t it boys and girls?!
Bye-bye
Gerry!