Easter Day AAW 11 April 2004, WBC, 10am
SongPro background. Props: ropes, tent, parts to play, cue disciples, shroud, grow bags
“N” signifies next item in Songpro for projector (song or powerpoint)
PPT 1 – page 1 comes in automatically
“AN EMPTY TOMB?- SO WHAT?!”
10am
Introduction: -David
Welcome - inspiring reading from a Gospel account (prob John 20:10-18)
The Easter shout: “Christ is risen!” “He is risen indeed, hallelujah!” PPT 1- page 2
N- songpro JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN TODAY (3 verse version, pumping)
N- songpro YOU LED ME TO THE CROSS
N- PPT 2Offering (Instrumental reprise of YLMTTC)
10.12am
PPT 2 “we’re going to play detectives and investigate the alternatives to Jesus rising from the dead” – David
1 SWOON- Ewen PPT 2
Let’s imagine Jesus ‘swooned’. Fainted. Fell asleep on the cross. Then- woke up in tomb and came out. (automatically goes to ‘swoon?’)
Need a strong person! To represent Jesus. Volunteer: (Robin!)
- he was scourged (bone & metal. ‘halfway death’)- can’t do that to Robin (shame!)- so let’s tie his hands together as equivalent to that
- carried his cross and nailed to cross for 6 hours- so let’s tie his feet together
- laid in a cold tomb for 36 hours, no food or water- so let’s tie his hands to his feet for that
- they embalmed him- 75 lbs of smothering smells- so let’s tie a few bags of potatoes to him for that
…. And he ‘comes to’, wriggles out of the wrappings and pushes the stone away- from INSIDE
- put Robin in a tent (?) and he has to get out?
What is the verdict of the detectives?- could he have done that?
= impossible! The stone was “very large”
- then he walks 7 miles and appears “radiant”?! (“Lord of life”)
- No- he had to be dead. “Swooning is not a possibility” PPT 2
o Jews were experts in death
o Plus testimony from someone Jn 19:33 (not a doctor, so probably didn’t know he was giving clear evidence of death)
10.25 am
N- songpro IN THE TOMB SO COLD
N- songpro THANK YOU FOR THE CROSS
Very youngest kids go out?
Prayers – led, David
10.30am
N- PPT 3
2 STOLEN –Ewen
“Let’s look at whether someone could have stolen the body once dead, and then made out He had risen” (Swoon & Stolen appear automatically)
Romans? PPT 3
- Roman soldier/Alice : “Don’t tell anyone but I took the body!”
- Detective 1/ Lauren: “well, why did you do that, then? What’s your motive? (microphone plus camcorder?)
o Soldier/Alice: “well….uuumh…”
- det 1/Lauren: “was he a threat to you Romans?”
o Soldier/Alice: “well….uuumh…”
- det 1/Lauren: “would you make money if the body ‘got away’
o Soldier/Alice: “well, actually- I’d be in big trouble…”
- det 1/Lauren: maybe you just didn’t like the procurator- and so felt it was okay to take his seal off the tomb?”
o Soldier/Alice: “well, actually- that’d be treason and punishable by death….”
- det 1/Lauren: oh- so you’re gonna die for taking the body! You are in big trouble!!
o Soldier/Alice: “only joking! I don’t have the body”
What’s the verdict, detectives- would the Romans have taken the body?
Jews? PPT 3
- Jew- MARK COLE: “Don’t tell anyone, but I took the body”
- det 2- BEN COLE: “what did you do that for, then?”
- Jew/Mark: “So the disciples couldn’t say he rose from the dead… like He said He would”
- Disciples (Ewen/David/Neil): “he is risen, he is risen!”
- det 2/Ben: that didn’t work very well, then, did it?!”
- Jew/Mark; “nope. But I still took the body!”. “oooh! I do wish they’d STOP going on about Him being raised!”
- Det 2/Ben: “just show them the body!”
- Jew/Mark: “uuuuuuuuummmmh”
- Det 2/Ben “plus- you’re in big trouble with the Romans for nicking it”
o Jew/Mark: “only joking! I don’t have the body”
What’s the verdict, detectives- would the Jews have taken the body?
Disciples? PPT 3
- Disciple/ Neil Simpson: “Don’t tell anyone, but we took the body”
- Disciples + (Ewen/David/Neil): “he is risen, he is risen!”
- Jew/Mark Cole: “okay: Peter: you’re going to die upside down on a cross for your faith…. James…. Andrew…. (get the list)
o Disciple/ Neil Simpson: “only joking! we don’t have the body”
What’s the verdict, detectives- would the disciples have taken the body?
PPT 3“Nobody stole the body-If they had, they would have produced it !”
10.37am
N- songpro LED LIKE A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER - David
N- songpro HERE I AM AND I HAVE COME- David
10.45am
N- PPT 4
3 STRESS- David
“let’s have a look at whether the disciples could have been so stressed out the imagined Jesus had risen” (will automatically bring in Swoon, Stolen, stress)
- post traumatic stress disorder
- do all imagine the same thing?
- Do all imagine it at the same time? (10 disciples saw him at once Jn 20:19)
- Do 500+ imagine it??!! 1 Cor 15:3-6
“Stressed people don’t all see the same thing at the same time” PPT 4
10.50am
N- songpro WE COME INTO YOUR PRESENCE (father of creation) David
10.52
N- PPT 5
4. SO WHAT?! – Ewen
Conclusion:
- PPT 5 it’s not RIP Jesus, but Resurrection In Process!
- He is Risen, indeed! PPT 5
- Implication- for Jesus: Romans 1:4 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord
- Implication for us: (1 Cor 15) Christ IS indeed raised- so or faith is not in vain
10.56
Closing songs & prayer:- David
N- songpro HE HAS RISEN, HE HAS RISEN
N- songpro THINE BE THE GLORY
Blessing
