Lights. Camera. [Action?]

Lights on. 

"Round it up! Places, please, places....." 

Scurry. Classroom scene, hard tables lined not quite symmetrically across the stage. One table center stage occupied by two students with lights focused. Others scattered randomly, mouths move silently. 

"Ok, let's get this thing done. Ready? Act I, Scene I, take 17.... rolling!" 

Zoom in on center table. 

Picks up book and flips through. "I don't get it."

Deep breath, as if expected. Get what?

"This says 'I find it easier to share when I think of what he gave up for me'. What did he give up for me?"

Aside to audience. (Oh man. The big question.) To partner. Everything. He gave His one and only Son for you. Because He loves you. 

"He gave his son? I thought they were the same person."

He gave Himself. To audience. (Was that right?) To partner. He gave Himself so that He could direct your life into something more than you could make it on your own. He can give you so much more than what you think you have now. 

Lifts eyebrow. "What do you mean? What can God give me that I don't already have? What can he give me more than money?" Laughs.

Girl blinks and pauses. Freedom. From sin, I mean. Like, we're controlled by our sinful nature, and He frees us from that. 

"Everyone sins." 

Of course. But when we accept Him we aren't bound by that sin anymore. He gives us freedom from death. You know, that verse 'for the wages of sin is death.' Through His freedom He gives us eternal life, beyond death, when we choose Him.  

"Well we're going to die anyway."

Ha, true. But more than that. It's eternity in heaven, which is more than we could ever imagine, versus eternity in hell. 

Thinking. "Yeah, but here's what I don't get. What about all of those people who haven't heard about him and they die? Like not everyone in the world has heard of Jesus, so what happens to those people? What kind of God would send them to hell for something they'd never heard of?"

Longer pause. Honestly, I'm not sure. I can tell you all of the theological ideas about it, but I really don't like theology because it's tricky. I personally think God always reveals Himself to us, through multiple ways. It doesn't just have to be someone physically telling you about the Gospel. We're suppose to live out our faith, too. 

Nods. "I guess. Like I know for me, maybe I never got into the whole Christian thing because I never knew about it. I mean my family believes in God and all but my parents never talk to me about it or taught me anything. Sometimes we go to church but I don't know, I just can't get into it. It's like I never went enough so no one ever taught me about him."

You have to be careful about chur—

Someone claps their hands. 

"Cut! Save the church stuff for the next scene, that's too far into the script. Ok, enough for the day! Let's take a break, people." 

Lights off.