Yesterday, we had a dramatic reading of Revelation as the main part of our service at ICP. Instead of a sermon, we shortened the first part of our service and then listened to the whole of the book. We broke it into three sections with congregational songs at the breaks; something which really drew us all into the worship of heaven.Simon had taken the text of Revelation in the NIV and split it into parts. We had seven readers, one playing John (Trevor, Simon's brother) a narrator, someone reading the words of God and four angels. The text, with the parts, can be downloaded from here. If you want to listen to the reading, you can download it here.
This all took a surprising amount of work and preparation on the part of all the readers, but was well worth it. The effect of hearing the whole of the book read in one go was wonderful. Very moving.
