Virtual Methodist

My previous post focussed on a monologue based, in part, around the Gospel reading in last Sunday's lectionary, which I used in the Radio Ulster Service at 10.15am that morning. 45 minutes later I was back in the Agape Centre where we had previously recorded that service, preaching on the same passages for our Livestreamed Circuit service. I didn't subject them to exactly the same sermon and instead of reading the Old Testament passage I offered a rehearsed reading of the following longer monologue which was based on that story and what immediately preceded it. Below the monologue you can see the service, with my "performance" of the piece at around 4 minutes 15 seconds in. It should have been my moment of triumph… God’s moment of triumph… But it quickly turned into the worst days of my life… I couldn’t understand it… why God would let it happen. After years of warning Ahab and his pagan wife Jezebel that it would not rain unless they honoured the Lord God of Israel...