Choose
                                                          by Bob Denison

Note: This skit illustrates how we end up serving God or the devil, regardless. It runs about 5 minutes.

(Lights on. DEVIL, dressed all in black, no skin showing, black pantyhose over head, is stage right. JESUS, dressed in white robe, is stage left. YOUNG PERSON enters, stage right, walking jauntily and happily.)

DEVIL:             (as YOUNG PERSON is walking past him) Follow me!
YP:                   (stops suddenly as though just now noticing DEVIL)
                         Oh...no. I know who you are. You're the devil! I 
                         wouldn't follow you. (continues walking jauntily- 
                         DEVIL exits)
JESUS:             (as YOUNG PERSON is walking past him) Follow me!
YP:                   (stops suddenly as though just now noticing
                         JESUS) Oh...uh...I know, Jesus. And I will, one of
                         these days. (continues walking jauntily- JESUS exits)

(Just as YOUNG PERSON reaches edge of stage left, DRUMMER, offstage, hits drum once, loudly. YOUNG PERSON jerks to a stop with a startled look. Drum then strikes loudly every 2 seconds. With each strike YOUNG PERSON jerks until he is turned around, and back over to where DEVIL was, and is knelt down. Coordinate jerks with drum strikes.)

DEVIL:             (walking out and standing before the knelt YOUNG PERSON)
                        You fool! Don't you know that if you are not serving him (points
                        to where JESUS was standing), you are serving ME. (emphasize "ME")
VOICE:            (offstage- DEVIL and YOUNG PERSON still frozen) "If you are
                        not with Me, you are against Me."
                        (pause) "The devil goes about as a roaring lion, seeking whom
                        he may devour."
                        (pause) "Choose this day whom you will serve."
(Lights off. All exit.)