October 24 – “Judg(e)ment House”

 

 

Saturday night we went with some folks from our church into Texas to a presentation called Judgement House.  That's how they spelled it.  It was printed that way on their shirts and all the advertisements.  I hope they meant for it to be that way for some reason.  It was just hard for me to keep seeing it.  It's one of those words that I finally nailed down the spelling on back when we were homeschooling and had to review the boys' work.  The "judge" part drops the "e" when you add the "ment."  Anyway, they had several scenarios set up – little mini-dramas – throughout the facility.  As groups were led through, actors portrayed snippets from the life and death of several people.  It continued on into their experiences in heaven and hell as well.  One of the interesting parts was that the same characters were played by different people in each scene.  The way you recognized them was that they were wearing the same kind of shirt. 

 

One of the things I really liked was the way they were able to interact with the audience.  We wondered why they made such a big deal of getting all of our names and pronunciations of names correct before the tour began.  When the characters died and were standing at the entrances to heaven or hell, the character reading from the Book of Life actually read out the names of every person in the crowd.  Very effective.  Then when the characters met Jesus, the guy playing him went to every one of us and gave us a hug.  Also pretty cool.  Kind of made us a bit shaky when we got to Hell and stood before the Satan character.  He didn't touch us, though.  Much appreciated.

 

There were a few rough patches with the script, but overall they did a pretty good job.  It was their first weekend of performances, so they should be even better next week.  Check it out up at Nassau Bay Baptist Church off of Nasa Road 1.  It's free.

 

Proverbs 29:20 says, "Do you see a man who speaks in haste?  There is more hope for a fool than for him."

 

Father, use that drama to touch some people and draw them to yourself.  Amen.