And God Created Audience

Patty presented this to the talented company of A.D. Players in Houston today. Hope you enjoy it. Ken

Becoming Audience by Ken Bailey

In the Beginning God created The Great Set. And cast it with beautiful living things. Then God took a seat third row center and said "It is Good". But He looked around and felt something was missing.

and then.. God created audience - a Man and a Woman - to see His Work and to applaud the Creator.

GOD raised the audience and the curtain and said,
I give you the birds of the air! (flying in stage left) And the creatures of the sea! (from stage right) and animals and flowers of every kind.

and because the audience missed the spectacle of Creation - He gave them a glimpse of it every morning at sunrise and every evening at sunset
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word, "the Script" was with God and the Script was God. And the Script became flesh and appeared on our stage.

Near the end of the Act 1 the Script said I am going away, but when you are "off book" I will send a Stage Manager and you can call for "line" any time you need.
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The Script, Jesus, also said, love the Producer totally, with your mind, and your Spirit and your heart… and love the audience. Don’t unwrap candy in the middle of the scene and turn off your cell phones so you and those around you with ears can hear.
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There was a time when the audience stop coming and only one man made every show. God told the audience of one to build a theater and the non-theater-going-public laughed at him. "Why are you building a theater when there is no one to attend". But God said I want a theater for my audience and my show. So God called on his small, faithful audience to bring in props and animals for God’s show. And he and his family brought in two of every animal (one for the show and an understudy) And after a flood of bad press, the theater opened and God put on his show, a revival. "I give you the birds of the air" and for the finale that day the little audience watch God place a rainbow upstage across the expanse of blue sky and God said, This will be a sign unto you of my covenant with the audience, that I will never close the show again by a flood".
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Shakespeare would have us believe we are "merely Players" but
God made us to be audience in His Theater. With two legs for standing ovations, opposable thumbs to open and read the program, two hands to clap, and eyes and ears to enjoy His show. And a single mouth to tell the single story of His Epic tale and to encourage others to come and see the show. The tickets have been comped by His Son.

Now we can be about His work acting, and directing and selling tickets and raising money, but we are never more in our place than
when we sit back or move up to the edge of our seats, when we turn off the cell phones or anything that makes noise, when the light fades on us and illuminates God’s amazing production. When we become audience.