Walking Around Jericho
Joshua 6:1-20
1 Corinthians 15:57
Cast: 2 people of any age or gender.
Set: Any. Action proceeds in dialogue. Clipboards or professional notebooks can be used to hide scripts or cheat sheets. Both begin center stage with lights down.
Lights up.
P1: What a day.
P2: What’s up?
P1: I need God’s help with so many things but it’s like I have to wait.
P2: So you are walking around Jericho.
P1: I am not walking anywhere. What are you talking about?
P2: When Joshua led the people into the Promised Land, God told him to march around the city of Jericho every day with all of the Israelite people.
P1: So God told Joshua to “Take a lap?”
P2: Sort of, but he had to bring everyone with him. The priests and the ark of the covenant in front and everyone else was following.
P1: That was Joshua’s battle plan?
P2: No, that was God’s.
P1: Take a lap, that was God’s plan?
P2: Well, it was a lap a day for 6 days, trumpets blaring but nobody saying much.
P1: What happened then?
P2: Day 7 of course.
P1: You’re cute.
P2: My grandmother thinks so.
P1: What happened?
P2: On the 7th day, the people circled the city 7 times, with 7 priests walking with the ark, and after the 7th lap on the 7th day…
P1: That’s a lot of 7’s.
P2: And then Joshua told everyone to shout at once.
P1: Shout what?
P2: A battle cry, of course.
P1: What’s a battle cry?
P2: You know, like, “Go Sooners!”
P1: I’ll bet half of them said, “Go Pokes!”
P2: OK, sure.
P1: What happened?
P2: The walls of the mighty city came tumbling down.
P1: Wow.
P2: Wow!
P1: And your point in my case is that God may want me to walk around in circles for 6 days before anything happens?
P2: It could be 6 or 60 or 600, but a day will come with a bunch of 7’s where God takes care of what you are dealing with.
P1: If it were only a city to attack, but these are modern times. I need modern day help from God.
P2: Don’t we all, but we need to understand that we already have victory today. It’s not really about 6’s and 7’s.
P1: I don’t understand.
P2: You are trusting in God, right?
P1: Yes, absolutely.
P2: Then you---we already have victory in Jesus. The biggest battle of our lives is won.
P1: Yeah, OK, but…
P2: Say this verse with me to help understand how we cope in today’s world.
P1: Let’s go.
P2: Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
P1: OK.
P2: Say it with me.
P1 & P2: Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
P1 & P2 [to audience]: Say it with us.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
P2: One more time.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
P1: Amen!
P1 & P2 walk off stage together [any direction] saying the verse as they walk.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The end.
Set: Any. Action proceeds in dialogue. Clipboards or professional notebooks can be used to hide scripts or cheat sheets. Both begin center stage with lights down.
Lights up.
P1: What a day.
P2: What’s up?
P1: I need God’s help with so many things but it’s like I have to wait.
P2: So you are walking around Jericho.
P1: I am not walking anywhere. What are you talking about?
P2: When Joshua led the people into the Promised Land, God told him to march around the city of Jericho every day with all of the Israelite people.
P1: So God told Joshua to “Take a lap?”
P2: Sort of, but he had to bring everyone with him. The priests and the ark of the covenant in front and everyone else was following.
P1: That was Joshua’s battle plan?
P2: No, that was God’s.
P1: Take a lap, that was God’s plan?
P2: Well, it was a lap a day for 6 days, trumpets blaring but nobody saying much.
P1: What happened then?
P2: Day 7 of course.
P1: You’re cute.
P2: My grandmother thinks so.
P1: What happened?
P2: On the 7th day, the people circled the city 7 times, with 7 priests walking with the ark, and after the 7th lap on the 7th day…
P1: That’s a lot of 7’s.
P2: And then Joshua told everyone to shout at once.
P1: Shout what?
P2: A battle cry, of course.
P1: What’s a battle cry?
P2: You know, like, “Go Sooners!”
P1: I’ll bet half of them said, “Go Pokes!”
P2: OK, sure.
P1: What happened?
P2: The walls of the mighty city came tumbling down.
P1: Wow.
P2: Wow!
P1: And your point in my case is that God may want me to walk around in circles for 6 days before anything happens?
P2: It could be 6 or 60 or 600, but a day will come with a bunch of 7’s where God takes care of what you are dealing with.
P1: If it were only a city to attack, but these are modern times. I need modern day help from God.
P2: Don’t we all, but we need to understand that we already have victory today. It’s not really about 6’s and 7’s.
P1: I don’t understand.
P2: You are trusting in God, right?
P1: Yes, absolutely.
P2: Then you---we already have victory in Jesus. The biggest battle of our lives is won.
P1: Yeah, OK, but…
P2: Say this verse with me to help understand how we cope in today’s world.
P1: Let’s go.
P2: Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
P1: OK.
P2: Say it with me.
P1 & P2: Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
P1 & P2 [to audience]: Say it with us.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
P2: One more time.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
P1: Amen!
P1 & P2 walk off stage together [any direction] saying the verse as they walk.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The end.
