A Samaritan Shows Kindness to a Hurting Enemy

Based on Luke 10: 25-37 

POY! SKIT GUIDELINES:

• In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words.
• Most POY! skits require no practice in advance.
• Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants.
• Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along.
• It is not necessary to employ costumes and objects, unless the skit recommends such.
• It is not required to have an audience watch the skit. All present may participate.
• Scripture and paraphrases, if any, usually appear in bold.

PARTICIPANTS:

Disciple (Also serves as Narrator)
Lawyer
Voice (of Jesus)
Traveler
Samaritan

Prompter (Optional). Prompter shouts a brief line and Companions repeat it.
Companions (Optional): children and all adults who want to take part. Make sure Companions know who the Prompter is, and that they are to repeat Prompter’s words.

 SCRIPT:

Disciple Â	We twelve disciples are with Jesus when a lawyer puts Him to the test.
LawyerÂ	Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?
VoiceÂ	What is written in the Law? Can you answer your own question?
LawyerÂ	Of course! “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart soul, mind and strength, and your neighbor as yourself”.
VoiceÂ	You have answered rightly. do this and you will live.
LawyerÂ	That it so general! Just who is my neighbor?
DiscipleÂ	Jesus answers with a story about a Jewish traveler.
TravelerÂ	I am going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and a band of robbers attack me!Â
Disciple	The man puts up a struggle, but they outnumber him. They beat him with clubs.
TravelerÂ	(Groan.) They also take my clothes and run off, leaving me bleeding, half-dead.
DiscipleÂ	Soon a priest comes down the road.
TravelerÂ	Oh! Here comes a man of God. Surely he will help me. Help! Help!
 Prompter & Companions	Help! Help!
DiscipleÂ	The priest just looks at the fallen man and passes by on the other side.
TravelerÂ	There is no hope for me! No hope!
Prompter & CompanionsÂ	No hope! No hope!
DiscipleÂ	A bit later, a Levite comes down the road.
TravelerÂ	Oh! Here comes a servant of God. Surely, he will help me! Please, sir, help me!
Prompter & CompanionsÂ	Help me! Help me!
DiscipleÂ	The Levite also merely looks at the bleeding man, and passes by on the other side.
TravelerÂ	I beg you! Help me! Mercy! Â
Prompter & CompanionsÂ	Mercy! Mercy!
DiscipleÂ	But there is no mercy. The man is growing weak when a Samaritan approaches with a donkey.
TravelerÂ	This one who is coming is a Samaritan, an enemy of us Jews. He won’t help me.Â
DiscipleÂ	But the good Samaritan stops, looks on the injured man and feels compassion.
Traveler	He bandages my wounds, pours oil and wine on them, and puts me on his donkey. We arrive at an inn and the Samaritan continues to care of me. He even leaves money with the innkeeper to take care of me after he leaves.
Voice	Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?
Lawyer	The one who showed mercy toward him.
Voice  Â	Go and do the same.

 

DISCUSS:

What persons in today’s world correspond to the priest and Levite in the story?

What specific acts could you (we) do this week to show practical love as Jesus said?