An adlib script that offers a simple plan of salvation works very well for Christian street outreach players with any level of experience, from beginner to experienced. Two actors are required for this skit, one to play the sinner and another to play the witness.
The Christian witness will, in his or her own words, explain the Bible's plan of salvation to the sinner, including the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, his sinless life, his crucifixion and death on the cross of Calvary, and his resurrection. The person playing the sinner will go through the process of being converted, believing the truth of the message by faith and praying for forgiveness of his or her sins.
This is a simple skit for church players of any age that offers a dramatic presentation with a desired outcome. Upon completion, the Christian witness can extend an invitation to the audience to accept the truth of the message and seek forgiveness as well.
This kind of skit can work for any charitable street outreach with a desired outcome. Choose a player to represent someone who is teaching--whether that person is teaching how to get a job or how to kick a drug habit. Then choose someone else to play the person who receives and understands the message.
This simple church skit requires one actor to wear a plain, simple costume consisting of dull brown slacks, a dull brown T-shirt, simple brown shoes and brown socks. The character should also be wearing a reversible cape that is dull brown on one side and filled with several bright colors on the other site.
The character stands slightly bent over with the cape wrapped tightly around his or her body and only the brown side of the cape showing, and trying to look as unattractive as possible. Other cast members portray part of the audience, looking at this poor, plain creature and commenting on how pitiful he or she is.
Slowly, the brown clad character begins to look up, and as the audience watches, he begins to develop a look of hope as a smile begins to spread across his face. He begins to straighten to his full height, and he begins to slowly unfurl his cape and flutter his arms to reveal the brightly colored underside of the fabric.
At this point, another cast member can step forward and explain that this is like the transformation of a Christian who accepts the truth of the gospel message of Jesus Christ and that anyone who believes can be turned into a beautiful butterfly just as this plain caterpillar has been.
This can be used for other outreach ideas that focus on transformation. Use it to show how breaking a destructive habit, like alcoholism, can transform life into something better.
One easy-to-perform script that is ideal for street outreach in an area that attracts teenagers involves a person who appears to be doing a survey on a street corner. The surveyor has a table set up with several new bottles of water on one side and a few partially empty bottles of water on the other side. A table sign is placed behind each group of bottles, one to read Fresh (behind the new bottles) and the other Used.
The lead asks the audience, which contains several additional cast members, if someone is interested in taking part in a simple survey. One at a time the lead calls on a cast member to step up to take the survey. He or she asks if the survey taker would prefer a fresh (unopened) bottle of water, or a used (partially empty) bottle of water. Invariably, the surveyor chooses a new bottle. The lead then thanks the survey taker and asks another cast member to take the survey.
After several people have taken the survey, the lead says to the audience that this is how people feel toward sexual purity, preferring freshness and newness over something that has been used by others. The lead then encourages the audience to consider their purity before entering into a sexual relationship outside of marriage.
This can also be used to show how living a life clean in other ways, such as free of drugs, destructive behaviors or violence, begins with the first step: choosing that path.