Real Live Preacher Dramatized Version, or
RLPDV, is my silly name for my dramatic versions of bible stories. I enjoy
imagining the stories from the gospels as they might have happened. I use modern
language and description in an attempt to capture the humanity in the bible
stories
I want to say something to my friends who stand
outside of the Christian tradition - atheists, agnostics, and others. You do not
need to be a Christian to appreciate the stories of Jesus. These stories have
been formative for our culture, and a passing knowledge of them is desirable for
any educated person.
The synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
use the same basic framework to tell the story of Jesus. They are also alike in
their brevity. The gospel accounts of Jesus are skeleton stories, stripped of
the flesh of their immediate context. We do not see the faces or the body
language. We don’t see what happened before and after. The gospel writers are
minimal, giving us just the facts and trusting that we will flesh out the story.
There was good reason for this. These stories
were born of an oral tradition, and only written down when those who knew Jesus
began to die. They may have been intended as memory aids in storytelling. They
are about as long as they could be and still fit on an average sized scroll.
They were pocket stories, meant to be carried around and copied.
When I add dramatized context and flesh, I do
this only to bring these bones to life again. The details I add are modernized
and absolutely fiction. But there were real, live details once. There was flesh
on these bones, and that makes all the difference.
Current RLPDV Stories (More are coming):
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