Christian Improv Games
Improv games help Christians develop their character by teaching them to take risks and think on their feet. If you become proficient at improv games, you can perform a comedy show at your church for Christian entertainment and community outreach. Christian comedian Jeremy Bryan Barnes says the purpose of Christian improv is to cleanly entertain people and promote Christian messages in a natural way, but not to force Bible stories into the act and try to make them funny.
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One Word Story
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Get a story concept from the audience: you can specifically ask for a Bible-related story or open it up to any topic. Line up a group of at least four performers side-to-side facing the audience. Performers take turns developing the story one word at a time. If one person repeats a word or says something that does not fit the story, he must leave the game. The game continues until there is only one person left who is the winner, or else the final two people who can finish the story if they both last until the end.
Greeting Cards
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Greeting cards starts by asking the audience to think of an unusual event, such as the death of a goldfish. Each performer must then pretend to read the outside and inside of a greeting card that might be written for people about the strange event. The outside of the card is the setup and the inside is the punchline. This game is played at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church by its in-house improv group.
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Holy Props
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Place an everyday object in front of the performer's chair. The performer has two minutes to demonstrate as many different uses for the object as possible. Limit the performer to "Christian" uses of the prop; this forces him to have fun with Christian ideas and think creatively about his religion.
The Evangelist
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The Evangelist asks the performers to put on a skit about one Christian sharing the Gospel with a non-Christian in two acts. The purpose of the first act is to demonstrate the wrong way to share the Gospel, with hilarious consequences, and the second act is to show a better method of evangelism. Christian improv duo Aaron Cook and Aaron McBroom do this routine in their skit called "Mac's Waffle House."
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