Brentwood Hills Church of Christ

Puppet Script for Children’s Worship Training

Lesson #13 – “The Lord’s Supper”

Characters needed:

Lion	(either man or woman, but some kind of original voice)
Boy	(man talking like a boy, in a high-pitched voice)
Girl	(man or woman talking in a high-pitched voice)
Clucky	(the chicken - anyone comedic)
Dog	(sits there the whole time but says something at the end)

Dog:	(comes out, pants, moves around, then just sits there)
Boy:	(pops up, with girl) “Wow, that sure was a great lunch today, wasn’t it?”
Girl:	(agrees) “Yeah, I love pizza and macaroni and cheese!”
Boy:	“And cinnamon apples and ice cream and cake and blueberries and watermelon and cinnamon toast and chocolate milk too!”
Girl:	“Yeah, all that stuff too. (pause) You know, I’m pretty full, aren’t you?”
Boy:	“Yeah, I’m REALLY full. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten that much in my life.”
Girl:	(getting a little queasy) “You know, my tummy doesn’t feel all that good…”
Boy:	(agreeing) “Mine either. That food sure was good, but I think I ate too much. I mean, it was all just soooooo good and I wanted to eat EVERYTHING!”
Girl:	“I think I DID eat everything…ohhhhh, ohhhhhh!”
Boy:	“Yeah, we shouldn’t have eaten so much, huh.”
Lion:	(pops up) “Howdy folks! Are you two a little, ummmmm…SICK?”
Boy:	“Well I guess you could call it that. We went to a really good lunch today, and we ate and ate and ate. We ate so much that our tummies hurt now. Ohhhhh…ohhhhhh!”
Lion:	(understands) “Ahhhhhh…your eyes are bigger that your stomachs, eh? Hardy har har har (laughs)…yeah, it happens. I was there too, and they had a lot of food alright.”
Boy:	“You were there?”
Lion:	“Yep.”
Girl:	“Well, Mr. Lion, did you eat a lot? Do you have a stomach ache too?”
Lion:	“My dear girl, LIONS don’t care for BLUEBERRIES.”
Girl:	“Oh. Right.”
Lion:	“You know, there were some people back in Jesus’ day who had the very same problem you have.”
Boy:	“Really? Exactly what problem is that?”
Lion:	“They ate too much.”
Girl:	(embarrassed) “Oh…yeah, I guess we did eat too much, didn’t we.”
Lion:	(continues) “These people were a part of the first church, and they would come to church and eat the Lord’s Supper, only they wouldn’t just take a portion to remember Jesus, they’d eat the whole tray!”
Boy:	“What? You’ve got to be kidding! You mean like the bread and the fruit of the vine? They ate the whole tray?”
Lion:	“Yeah. They weren’t using the Lord’s supper like they were supposed to. They thought it was just a time to eat.”
Girl:	(confused) “Well, ISN’T it a time to eat? Why does the church pass out crackers and grape juice then? I thought it was just to give everyone a little snack so they wouldn’t get hungry during church. Although I never could figure out why they didn’t give any to the kids…hmmmmmmm…”
Lion:	“No, no, no, my sweet, dear child! The Lord’s Supper is not a snack! It’s a time to remember Jesus and the SACRIFICE he made for us. Before Jesus died, he ate dinner with his disciples and he told them that the bread was his body and the fruit of the vine was his blood. He told them to remember him by eating these things after he died.”
Girl:	“The bread? I never see any bread in the plate at church.”
Lion:	“We use crackers to represent the bread.”
Girl:	“And the fruit of…what? I never see any fruit either.”
Lion:	“The FRUIT OF THE VINE. Fruits that grow on vines are grapes, so the fruit of the vine is GRAPE JUICE.”
Girl:	“You mean the purple stuff that people drink?”
Lion:	“Exactly.”
Clucky:	“Brock, brock, fruit, fruit!! I love fruit!! Brock, brock! Gimme some fruit!”
Lion:	“Hah, Cluckster, don’t be silly! I’m very sorry, but CHICKENS can not be baptized! And since Chickens can not be baptized, you can’t have any of our fruit of the vine! Hardy har har har!!” (Clucky pouts and exits)
Boy:	“You mean if you’ve never been baptized you can’t EVER drink grape juice? (pause) (very loud and slowly) Uh oh!”
Lion:	“Drinking grape juice is OK for a meal. It’s just like any other juice. But when we take the Lord’s Supper, it means something special, something REVERENT. Do you know what REVERENT means?”
Boy:	“Uhhhhh…no.”
Girl:	“Can’t say that I’ve learned the meaning of that word…no.”
Lion:	“Being REVERENT means being very serious and concentrating on something. That’s why all the adults get very quiet during the Lord’s Supper. They are concentrating on Jesus and praying to God. They are remembering that only Jesus, who was perfect, could take away their sins, and he did…by dying and being a sacrifice to God.”
Boy:	“And, now…ummmmm…soooo…..what’s the thing about getting baptized?”
Lion:	“Well, when you are ready to give your whole life to Jesus and you are very much in love with him and with God and you have studied the Bible, then you can decide that you’d like to be added to God’s church by being baptized. YOU know…it means you go under the water and come up. But even more than that, it is a sign to God that you are serious about a relationship with him.”
Girl:	“Oh, oh, I know! I know! Then after you are baptized, you WANT to take the Lord’s Supper every week because you are in love with Jesus and you want to remember him!”
Lion:	“Right! Excellent!”
Girl:	“And you don’t want to eat the whole tray either.”
Lion:	“No way, not if you understand what’s really going on and why we take the Lord’s Supper.”
Boy:	“So the people who came and ate the whole tray of the Lord’s Supper really didn’t…well, they just didn’t GET IT, did they.”
Lion:	“They didn’t get to experience the real meaning of the Lord’s Supper because they were too busy filling their stomachs. They fulfilled an EARTHLY craving, but the Lord’s Supper is supposed to fill a SPIRITUAL need inside your heart when you remember Jesus.”
Girl:	“Mmmmmmm…I wish I would have given LESS to my earthly craving and MORE to my spiritual one during LUNCH today…ohhhhhh!”
Boy:	“Yeah, me too. Does the Bible have anything to say about regular food, like, the kind you eat when you’re NOT at the Lord’s Supper?”
Lion:	“Oh yes! It says that you should only eat what you need for your body. God gives us all food for our bodies and we should only eat until we are full and no more than that.”
Girl:	“Hmmmmm…what a good rule! I think I’ll try that next time my eyes tell my stomach to eat that last piece of cake…”
Boy:	“Yeah, I think I’ll pass on the ice cream next time I’ve already had two pieces of pizza.”
Dog:	(gets excited) “Woof woof! Give it to the dog, woof woof! Except I’m lactose intolerant! Woof woof woof!”
Lion:	“God gives us good things, and we should use them wisely. And we should eat the Lord’s Supper (said very slowly) REVERENTLY, right guys?”
Girl:	“Right on!”
Boy:	“Absolutely. But only if you’ve been baptized.”
Lion:	“Right. So, how about comin’ with me to Jungle Jimmy’s Jammin’ Java Joint for a coffee and lemon cake?”
Boy:	(disgusted and full) “Ugghghhh! I’ll pass. I think I ate enough for three days!”
Girl:	“Yeah, yuuuuuck. I couldn’t eat another bite. I might explode or something.”
Lion:	“Suit yourself. I’ll see you later, then. Tell your friends all about the Lord’s Supper now, and tell them why it’s not really a supper at all!”
Boy:	“OK, we will. But first we are going to take a really long NAP! Bye-bye everyone!”
Girl:	“Yeah, bye-bye everyone!”
Lion:	“Bye-bye!”