Blessed Assurance
Five Questions from 1 John
A 90-minute live show that delivers 1 John word for word in five acts, closing each act with the question John would ask his hearers and answering it with original songs.
- Running time
- About 90 minutes
- Format
- Drama and music in five acts
- Source text
- The First Letter of John
Blessed Assurance is a 90 minute live show which delivers 1 John word-for-word in 5 acts along with original songs based on the story line.
John, the son of Zebedee, author of the fourth Gospel as well as 1, 2, 3 John and Revelation, wrote 1 John between 60 and 100 AD to a church struggling with assurance. 1 John provides theological and behavioral tests to help true believers rejoice with full assurance. John says, “I write these things to you who believe in the Name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13).
In five short acts we deliver 1 John dramatically, word for word, along with a key question John would ask his hearers. Chapter 1 asks, “Do you walk in the light as He is in the light?”
Our original songs like “Be Holy”, “I Run” and “When You Turn” are based on the Scripture text. They underscore the theological and behavioral calls in this wonderful letter.
If you struggle with assurance of your salvation, come and be encouraged. John wants true believers to walk confidently in their God given faith.
What to expect
The text
The whole of 1 John recited from memory, in five acts, without a note in hand.
The questions
Each act ends with the probing question John would ask his hearers, then a song that answers it from the text.
The lighting
The program travels with its own lighting, setting the confidence of assurance against the shadow of doubt.
“Jim and the team of accomplished musicians interspersed original compositions with his amazingly memorized, and expressive and compelling reciting, of 1 John. Each section concluded with a probing question that expanded the passages and made them and the musical reflections relevant and persuasive to all in attendance.”
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