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Lance Pierson Performer

Serious Bible Performances

Lance Pierson performing

Bible Performance is Lance’s speciality. He believes that we have a powerful resource in God’s word and that so often we lose all of its power because it is read in a routine manner. Lance is on a campaign to make the Bible reading a highlight wherever it is read. He offers four things to achieve this:

The Walking Bible

Lance feels his true gift is Bible performance, so he offers to learn and then perform any passage or passages of the Bible for your event. He passionately believes that the reading of the Bible should be the highlight of any gathering where it is read. This is an ideal way to make use of Lance in addition to a one-man show.

In addition to straight Bible performance, Lance has a wealth of resources at his disposal. So to help a speaker he can also illustrate a Bible passage through poetry, stories and sketches. Lance is a very experienced Bible performer and he has been asked to do Bible readings at Spring Harvest, the Keswick Convention, Easter People and NEAC.

Bringing Bible Readings to Life Training

The Bible reading usually happens in our church services in a routine fashion, with no thought of making it special, and it therefore has little impact. Lance believes it can and should be a high point of the whole service, if done with reverent imagination and the prayer that God will speak through it.

Lance's winsome ability to make a passage of Scripture come alive meant that the people I was preaching to were already fully engaged with the passage even before I got up to speak. Mark Greene, Director, London Institute of Contemporary Christianity

To achieve this, Lance runs an envisioning and training event, available in 4 lengths:

  • 40 mins - 1 hour Talk and talkback. Suitable for conferences, groups of church leaders, etc.
  • 2 hours Taster Includes a short practical exercise; suitable for an evening for a church's regular Bible-readers
  • 4 hours Trainer Includes more demanding exercises with feedback, and time to plan for the future; suitable for a Saturday for several churches in an area.
  • Full day Total Bible experience! Includes one-man performance by Lance, a good way to help the day finance itself; suitable for a group of churches, or as part of a church weekend

Mark's Gospel

Lance brings the Bible Story to life in the Bible’s own words. This is a dramatic and powerful way of hearing the Gospel story. Lance doesn't stand still or read from a lectern but with simple movement and action, he acts the story out, bringing it close to you. He uses Alan T. Dale's translation, New World which requires no background knowledge and takes no technical language for granted. Instead it makes the story vivid and accessible.

Each half of the show lasts about 40 minutes. However Lance can shorten the show to suit your needs. For the last few years he has performed the second half as a one-man show called "Holy Week."

To learn more about the show

The Gospel in Art

Here is a powerful way of visualising the Gospel story. Lance uses all his experience to read stories from the Gospels accompanied by pictures of paintings which depict incidents from the story.

The Gospel in Art can be used as part of the Bringing the Bible to Life Training. But it can also be used in services, retreats or other Bible presentations in its own right.

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