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Related Bible reading(s): Acts 8.26-40

Present the New Testament

Acts 8.26-40

For a while in Acts, Philip becomes the main character in the story of how the gospel spread ‘to the ends of the earth’. He meets a man, a pious Gentile from Ethiopia, who had just begun his journey home after coming to Jerusalem to worship.

You need a narrator, and two people to speak the words of Philip and the Ethiopian. The narrator reads from a lectern or central place. Philip and the Ethiopian begin beside the narrator, walking slowly round the worship space, ‘talking’ to one another – although the only words spoken aloud will be those in the text – and arriving near to the place of baptism by verse 36. Pause the reading to act out the baptism. Then Philip and the Ethiopian go separate ways – the Ethiopian returns to the side of the narrator, celebrating all the way. Philip disappears by whatever route is easiest in your context.

 

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