IS DRAMA IN THE BIBLE ? 
Monday, June 2, 2008, 04:35 PM
Posted by Mike Bamiloye
The Bible speaks a lot about music; Angels are full of songs of praise and worship. When Jesus Christ was born, the Shepherd heard the Angelic hosts singing and praising God (Luke 2: 13). David was a psalmist, for this reason he was employed by Saul to sing and play the hard for him to wade off demonic attacks (I Samuel 16: 23). The ark of the Lord was brought to Jerusalem amidst sounds of trumpets, harps and music (2 Samuel 6: 15). At the last supper, the Lord and His disciples sang hymn (Matt. 26: 30). So, the Bible establishes the place of music, moreso that even the saints in heaven shall sing the song of Moses and the Lamb (Rev. 15: 3).

But what about drama? What about acting? Is it possible to make references like this across the Bible concerning drama? Definitely, anything done outside the Bible is out of place, however beautiful or fruitful it may look or sound. Is there drama in the Bible?

Jesus Christ loves children. He rebuked His disciples for trying to prevent them from coming to Him. So, He is in full support of Child Evangelism. The Bible even gave the warning for us to train up our children in the ways of the Lord, so that they will go in the right direction when they grow up (Prov. 22: 6). Therefore, if there are people called by God to carry the burden and vision of training them up for the Lord, will they not be fulfilling the counsel of the Lord?

If you are a Bible teacher, pastor, evangelist, prophet or apostle, all these have strong scriptural base, the Lord Jesus Christ was the greatest “Rabbi”. He is our Shepherd and a perfect example of an evangelist that went about doing good. In fact, it was Jesus Christ who:

“…..when he ascended up on high, he led the captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men… And he gave some, apostle, and some, prophets, and some, evangelists, and some, pastors and teachers.” Ephesians 4: 8, 11

Is the gift of drama and acting therefore not part of the gifts He gave unto men?

There is no ministry work that is not backed up by the scripture. Any act of evangelism can be found to be fully supported by the Word of God if one takes the pain to search out the scripture.

Despite the huge spiritual results of drama evangelism today, some ministers and children of God still challenge this weapon of evangelism on the basis that they could not find any scriptural justification for it. If by drinking beer and telling horrible lies, people are getting converted into the Kingdom of God en-masse, does that make drunkenness and deceitfulness an act of holiness? Even if it happens that there is mass conversion and revival as a result of man’s act of drunkenness and deceitfulness, those people will get to heaven, but the drunkard and deceitful man is a qualified citizen of hell because the Bible has condemned him.

If acting drama, behaving like demons, acting like harlots, herbalists and masquerades on stage is getting people to Kingdom of God and what we are doing has no scriptural justification, then, all we drama ministers are in horrible danger.

Culled From: “Is Drama In The Bible ?”
(Page 15-16)
By: MIKE BAMILOYE

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