Jordan led Koinonia from through He also traveled widely as a speaker and translated much of the New Testament into the Cotton Patch versions. Jordan died of a heart attack on October 29, , while working at Koinonia on a Cotton Patch translation.
Florence Jordan died of cancer at Koinonia on June 17, , and was buried with her husband at Koinonia. Chancey, Andrew. Chancey, A. Clarence Jordan. In New Georgia Encyclopedia. Clarence Jordan center , a Southern Baptist preacher known for his dedication to racial reconciliation and economic justice, attends a church meeting.
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Product Code: C Musical Drama Cast size: large and variable with male and female roles to suit your group, or by doubling with as few as 5. Script use:. As this Gospel begins, they sing that "Somethin's a-brewin' in Gainesville.
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We've never had a better response -- from audience or cast!!! Easy to stage, entertaining for all ages. Harry Chapin's score adds to the "jubilation" of the Gospels as well as the "flip-side" moments -- the times of loss and loneliness Jesus came to save us from. The script is well written and fast paced and, mixed with the country music motif, it is spiritually enlightening. People loved it. We had way too much fun working on this for three months!
After laughing and crying through 90 minutes of hysterical humor, I was stunned to realize that I had just experienced a deeply moving, boldly conceived, professionally executed performance that had both my brain cells and emotions running in high gear. Additionally, at this convention, the authorities plan to lynch Jesus. However, on Sunday he will rise again. The Act closes with "Goin' To Atlanta" where the disciples sing about their excitement and Jesus expresses his concerns about being lynched and what Atlanta really means.
Act II. The Act opens with the disciples asking themselves whether they are ready for the journey ahead "Are We Ready? Jesus and the disciples temporally parted when Jesus went into the Smoky Mountains for a private prayer meeting. He returned to the disciples by walking out to the middle of the lake while they were fishing.
Jesus urges Rock to try to walk on water too. At first Rock succeeds, but then goes under and starts drowning. Jesus felt defeated, and they traveled to Valdosta in silence. When they arrived, the town did not greet them well, but instead gossiped as to why Jesus was back.
Jesus cut off communication. When Jesus' family comes to see him, Jesus refuses to see them. That night, after supper, Mary and Joe reflect upon their son; how even though he is now the messiah, he is still their little boy in their hearts "You Are Still My Boy".
At this time, the governor of Georgia was Harvey, a nephew of Herod. When John the Baptiser spoke out against Harvey, he had him killed.
Upon hearing about this, Jesus starts gearing up the public and becoming more popular through various miracles. For example, he fed five thousand people with two cans of sardines and five boxes of Nabiscos.
Jesus calls all of his disciples together again. During the meeting Jesus mentions the lynching again. Rock responds by saying that the lynching business in nonsense and that he and the other disciples have Jesus' take over of the governorship all figured out "We Gotta Get Organized". Jesus expresses that he did not come to star on some t.
He calls Rock Satan and tells him to leave. The very next day however, Jesus is happy and back to normal and tells the gang its time to move out to Atlanta. They slowly made their way there with Jesus driving in an old beat up V. Jesus interacts with the crowd while the disciples realize that their time with Jesus is coming to the end, but they will cherish every moment "We're Gonna Love It While It Lasts".
The crowd, expected miracles or an announcement of Jesus' intention to take over office. The blind and needy then gathered with him in the church and he made them well "Jubilation". Outside, the crowd felt cheated and began to riot against Jesus along with the board of politicians "Dangerous Man". Jud then meets secretly with Dr. Caiphas, a member of the board.
Who gave you this permission? But give me a reading on this: A man had two boys. Then he went to the younger one and told him the same thing. Which of the two obeyed his father?
But the hippies and the whores bought it, and you knew it. Then he rented it to some sharecroppers and left. When peach-picking time came, he sent his workers to the croppers to get his share of the fruit. But the croppers took his workers and beat one of them, killed another, and stoned the other. So he tried again, this time sending more important workers than before, but the croppers treated them the same way.
Finally he sent his son, thinking that surely they would respect him. Now, when the owner of the orchard comes, what will he do to those croppers? And the person who falls on this stone will be splattered, but whoever it falls on will be pulverized. They were dying to arrest him, but feared the crowd, who regarded him as a man of God.
Jesus continued the conversation by speaking to them with Comparisons. He told his secretaries to invite the prominent dignitaries, but they refused to accept.
So he told his secretaries to try again. One left to go out to his farm; another went to his store, The rest of them taunted and insulted the secretaries. At that, the governor had a duck fit, and ordered the names of the scoundrels to be struck from the list of his friends. So go to the various precincts, and whoever you find there, invite them to the banquet.
The banquet hall was filled with guests, and the governor went in to greet them, There he saw a guy sitting at the table who looked and smelled like he had just come in from his farm. Then the governor said to the waiters. Then the good church members got together and hatched a plot to trap him in something he said. So they sent him a committee with some FBI men. Now please give us your opinion am this matter: Should one pay Federal taxes or not?
Now, there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. The same thing happened with the second and the third, on through the seventh. Finally the woman died. Now then, in the hereafter, which of the seven will she belong to, since all of them were married to her? In the hereafter people are not married, but are in the Spirit, like angels. He is not, then, the God of the dead but of the living.
Whose son is he? Their every action is for show. They strut in their robes and display their degrees. Your top man shall be your houseboy. The fellow who promotes himself will get bumped, and whoever bumps himself will get promoted. You blind nitwits, which is more important, the gold or the sanctuary that houses the gold? So anybody who pledges by the altar table pledges by it and everything on it.
And anybody who pledges by the sanctuary pledges by it and by its Occupant. You ought to practice these without neglecting those. You addlebrained leaders, you fence in a flea and let your horse escape. You save your trading stamps and throw your groceries in the garbage. Blind ecclesiastic, first clean up the inside of the house, that the outside too might be neat. Outwardly you impress people as men of justice, but inside you are full of phoniness and fraud,.
Over you, then, hangs the guilt for the murder of every innocent man since time began, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zack Bronson, who was shot between the church and the parsonage. Killer of prophets and assassinator of statesmen, many times I wanted to draw your people together as a hen snuggles her biddies under her wings, and you would have none of it.
Race will rise against race, and nation against nation. There will be disasters and shakeups in various places. All these things are but the first labor pains of the new order. Many ministerial quacks will come along and hoodwink the crowds. But the one who sticks with it to the finish will be saved. And this good news of the Movement will be spread throughout the world as an established fact for mankind; then the finish will come.
It will be hell for the pregnant and for those who are nursing babies in those days. And had not its duration been shortened on account of the remnant, not a soul would come through it alive.
For fake messiahs and phony preachers will get up all over the place and put on big shows and crusades so as to bamboozle, if they can, even the true believers. The coup of the son of man will be just like a bolt of lightning springing from the east and flashing across the sky to the west. Then the signal of the son of man will appear in the sky. And he will send his messengers with a terrific trumpet to assemble his true believers from North and South and East and West.
All right, by the same token, when you see all this taking place, you know that here it is on your doorsteps. I assure you that before this generation is gone, things will be popping. Land and sky will cease to be, but my words will stand to eternity.
They were unconvinced until the flood came and swept everything away. When it happens, two brothers will be in the field; one will be caught up and one will be left plowing. Two sisters will be fixing dinner; one will be caught up and one will be left cooking. So stay on your toes, because you can never tell what day your master will come. And keep this in mind: if the homeowner knew what time the thief was coming, he would wait up for him and not allow his house to be robbed.
By the same token, you too be on the alert, be. Happy is that worker who, when his boss shows up, is hard at it. That will give him something to moan and groan about. Five of them were giddy-witted and five were cool. The giddy-wits took their lanterns but no oil, while the cool ones took extra oil for their lanterns. The wedding procession was late in coming, so they all started nodding and napping.
Jump up and join it! Right away the man with the five hundred grand got to work and made five hundred more. The man with the two hundred grand did the same and made another two hundred.
After a long time the boss returned and called his assistants together for an accounting. I was plain scared to take any chances, so I rented a safe-deposit box and put your money in it.
Then you should have turned my money over to the bank so that upon my return I would get back at least my principal with interest. Now as for this useless critter, throw him in the back alley. And all the nations will be assembled before him, and he will sort them out, like a farmer separating his cows from his bogs, penning the cows on the right and the hogs on the left.
When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or ragged and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in jail, and stand by you? Then the executives and board members got together at the office of the chairman, whose name was Caiaphas.
The purpose of the meeting was to find a way to take Jesus on the sly and do him in. When Jesus was at the home of Simon the wino in Jonesboro, a woman with a bottle of very high-priced perfume came and dabbed it on him while he was eating.
Why waste this when it could be sold for a neat sum and used for the poor? She has done something beautiful for me. By putting this perfume on my body she has prepared me for burial. I assure you that wherever the gospel is preached she will be remembered for what she has done. I plan to have the banquet with my students at your place.
Indeed the son of man is going the same way the Scriptures said he would, but it will be hell for that fellow who turns him in. It would have been better for him if he had never been horn. During the banquet Jesus took a loaf, and having blessed it he broke it and gave it to the students.
It is being shed for many so as to write the Constitution of the Clean State. Well, they sang something and went out to Peach Orchard Hill.
But I want you to decide it, not me. He went back to the students and found them dozing. Even though the heart is right, the will is weak. He let them be, and went back again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing over. The man turning me in is here now! Even as he was saying it, Judas, one of the twelve, came up, and with him was a mob sent out by the power establishment and armed with guns and clubs. Right then one of those with Jesus reached in his pocket and pulled out a switchblade.
People who use violence are destroyed by it. But then, how would the writings that it must turn out this way have any meaning? The gang that got Jesus took him to Caiaphas, the archbishop, where the ministers and elders were gathered. Why do we need any more witnesses? Just look! What do you think? Let him die!
Rock was still sitting outside in the yard. Right then the rooster crowed. At daybreak all the executive board deliberated on how to put Jesus to death. They beat him up real good, and took him over and turned him in to Governor Pilate. You tend to it. So they passed a motion to buy the Potter place with it, as a cemetery for outsiders.
Jesus now appeared before the governor. But when the church officers tried to hang something on him, he made no defense.
Now each year at the annual convention the governor had a practice of pardoning some prisoner the people demanded. Right then there was a very famous prisoner in jail named Jesus Daddy-boy. Well, the leaders of the council pressured the mob to ask for Daddy-boy to be released and Jesus to be condemned.
They stripped him naked, dressed him up in a black clerical robe, and made a dog collar out of burlap. When they got through deviling him, they took off the clerical garb and put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to string him up. Over his head they put a copy of the charge against him. People passed by him and razzed him. He is the Leader of the Faithful; let him break loose from the cross now and we will be his faithful ones. He set his heart on God; now if God wants him, let him rescue him.
From noon till three a darkness settled over the whole place. And you know, the big curtain in the sanctuary of First Church was torn in two, from top to bottom. Graves were laid open, and many bodies of dedicated dead people were made alive. Now when the captain and his buddies who were keeping an eye on Jesus saw the earthquake and the happenings, they were scared out of their wits.
Some distance away a number of ladies, who had followed Jesus from Alabama to wait on him, were watching it all. Late that afternoon a well-to-do man arrived, a Jesus convert named Joseph, from the white suburb of Sylvan Hills. So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean sheet, put it in his new burial vault, which he had cut out of a rock, rolled a huge stone over the entrance, and left. Go and make it as secure as you know how. And you know, a big Commotion happened.
An angel of the Lord came down out of the sky and went and rolled away the stone, and sat down on top of it. His face was like lightning and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so shook up that they looked like corpses.
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