BACK LOVE3 4'?m2f Spiritual Warfare, relationships, love, hate (both demons dress in black clothes) ONE -- (enters hurriedly carrying suitcase, looking back, stops, turns, sets down suitcase, looks at watch, picks up suitcase, turns) TWO -- (enters opposite when One's back is turned) Where you going, kid? ONE -- (gasps) Boss! You're early! TWO -- You didn't answer my question. ONE -- Question? What question? TWO -- Where you going, kid? ONE -- Oh, that question. Now I remember. You want to know where I'm going, right? TWO -- Yeah. ONE -- Uh, I was just about to... take my coffee break. Yeah, that's it. I was about to take my coffee break. TWO -- Carrying a suitcase? ONE -- (drops suitcase, turns) Suitcase? What suitcase? TWO -- (point to own forehead) Look here. ONE -- (turns) Look where? TWO -- (pointing) Here. Look here. Do I have the word STUPID written on my forehead? ONE -- No, Boss. Of course not. TWO -- So, anyone with half a brain would conclude that YOU are deserting your post. ONE -- Listen, boss, you got to let me out of here. I've been demonizing this church for months and I can't make a dent in their relationships. Can't you assign me to another church?! Please?! TWO -- Kid, we demons have been using the same tried and true strategies for thousands of years. If you're not making a dent in their relationships, you're not using the tried and true strategies. ONE -- Well, I've been trying to get them to turn against each other. I saw how divorces and law suits and church splits have ruined other churches. But these people will not bend. You've just got to reassign me to a church where I can do some harm. TWO -- What's the use? You'd be as harmless at your next church as you were at this one. ONE -- Wait. Are you saying that I'm doing something wrong? TWO -- That's what I'm saying. ONE -- But what? TWO -- Your problem is your trying to get these people to HATE one another. ONE -- That's a problem?! I thought that's what I was assigned to do! TWO -- You were assigned here to ruin relationships. ONE -- But, in basic training they taught us to do the OPPOSITE of what Jesus taught. Jesus taught them to LOVE one another. TWO -- That's right. ONE -- So, my job is to get them to HATE one another. TWO -- Wrong! ONE -- Wrong?! TWO -- Wrong. The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is INDIFFERENCE. The only way you'll ever make headway against their relationships is to promote INDIFFERENCE. ONE -- I don't get it. TWO -- Look, the kind of love that Jesus spoke about was AGAPE' love, the kind of love that gets people to DO things for those they love. All you have to do is to get them SAYING "I love you", but DOING absolutely nothing about it. ONE -- Oh! I remember now! The instructor at basic training called it LIP SERVICE. TWO -- There's hope for you, kid. ONE -- My problem was I was trying to get them to stop SAYING "I love you". But I SHOULDN'T have stopped them from SAYING "I love you". What I should have done is prevented them from doing things that SHOWED their love. TWO -- Couch potatoes. ONE -- Excuse me? TWO -- When it comes to showing their love by their actions, you want them to be couch potatoes. ONE -- Yeah! A church full of couch potatoes! Saying "I love you" and doing nothing. TWO -- Pretty soon, the people they say "I love you" to will know they didn't mean it. And guess what comes next. ONE -- Broken relationships! TWO -- Bingo! That's what we're after! ONE -- Our new motto is "Say ANYTHING, do NOTHING". TWO -- Now that's couch potato Christianity! As long as we keep them doing nothing, the church will be useless to God. ONE -- (picks up suitcase) "Say ANYTHING, do NOTHING"! (turns, exits) TWO -- (exiting opposite) That's the spirit! ©2007 Bob Snook. Conditions for use: Do not sell any part of this script, even if you rewrite it. Pay no royalties, even if you make money from performances. You may reproduce and distribute this script freely, but all copies must contain this copyright statement. http://www.fea.net/bobsnook email: bobsnook@fea.net BACK |