Old Testament drama

My church's adult Sunday school class ended up doing a six-week study of one of John Ortberg’s inspirational and easy-to-read books. A member of the class loved the book and wanted to share and teach it—and who can argue with six weeks off as a teacher?

Before that, we’d been through many of N.T. Wright’s “For Everyone” study guides, and we'd organized a successful unit on Islam and Christianity, taught well by an instructor from our county college. We’ve read Adam Hamilton; we've added online conversation to our Lenten study. Now what?

I’m tired of the sitting-in-a-circle discussions, and the group may be too. So my husband and I have come up with an Old Testament unit—not a Bible study, but a drama-based class that would have participants acting out stories from the Old Testament. Our goals are