Holy Trinity Sunday An opening
Skit
based on Abbott and Costello's “Who’s On First?”
Written by Rev. Charles A. Woodward, St. Paul Lutheran, Westerville, Ohio
Pat: So when you come to church, there’s a couple things you need to know.
Chris: Oh yeah. Like what?
Pat: Well, you need to know the key players, the key figures, you know, the ones
who are worthy of honor and praise.
Chris: Honor and praise, huh? Well, who are they?
Pat: Okay, now listen closely. There is one God.
Chris: One God. That seems easy enough. What do you call this God?
Pat: We call this God, “God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.”
Chris: Now wait just a minute. You told me there is one God, right?
Pat: That’s right.
Chris: And this God has three names?
Pat: That’s right!
Chris: So which is it?
Pat: So which is what?
Chris: Which name do you use?
Pat: The name I gave you.
Chris: But you gave me three names!
Pat: That’s right!
Chris: What’s right?
Pat: God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Chris: So you have three Gods?
Pat: No, one God.
Chris: So which is it?
Pat: Which is what?
Chris: Father, Son or Holy Spirit?
Pat: Yes.
Chris: Yes to what?
Pat: That’s God’s name.
Chris: Which God?
Pat: Our one God.
Chris: But you gave me three names.
Pat: Three names, one God.
Chris: Why three names, why not just one name?
Pat: Because they aren’t the same.
Chris: But you just told me there is one God.
Pat: There is! A wonderful mystery, isn’t it?
Chris: So which is it?
Pat: Which is what?
Chris: Which name is the name of your God?
Pat: I told you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Chris: But that is three.
Pat: Yes, but it is only one God.
Chris: I don’t think I want to go to church with you!
Pat: What is the problem.
Chris: You won’t tell me the name of your God!
Pat: I told you the name – Father, Son and Holy Spirit!
Chris: Let me get this straight. There is only one God.
Pat: Right.
Chris: Is it God the Father?
Pat: And the Son and the Spirit.
Chris: And God the Father is the same as God the Son.
Pat: No, they are different.
Chris: AHA! SO there is TWO!
Pat: No, just one.
Chris: Well, what about the Spirit?
Pat: Same thing.
Chris: Can you explain to me how this can be, three in one, separate yet together,
all in one God?
Pat: I think you have already done it yourself.
Chris: I have?
Pat: Sure – three in one. One God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit!
Chris: It doesn’t seem very logical.
Pat: Sometimes logic isn’t the answer. Some things we need to accept by
faith.
Chris: Faith?
Pat: Faith.
Chris: You know, I don’t think I am ever going to completely understand. Why
don’t we just go to a baseball game! Who’s on first?
Pat: Exactly!