Jesus This Is Your Life

A perfect resource to engage children/adolescents in Scripture and Liturgy.

Following the success of It’s the Bible (2003), “Jesus, This is Your Life” is another ideal musical resource for schools, families and church groups. Bring the New Testament stories to life with great music which appeals to young and old alike. Animating the New Testament in a way which brings fun and vitality, Jesus, This is Your Life communicates the ministry of Jesus in an infectious manner.

Jesus, This is Your Life is the collection of 15 songs from The Dogmatics, a band who brings the stories of the Bible to life for young listeners. The story of Jesus’ life has never been told like this before. There’s a rap version of the Parable of the woman caught in adultery, a beautiful ballad of the Sermon on the Mount and then there’s a Bluegrass version of The Feeding of the Five Thousand celebrating the joy of the occasion. The songs tap in to the every day experiences of young people through a wide variety of modern music styles.

The material links to New Testament and Life and Times of Jesus units in all Australian Religious Education courses and appeals to students from Infants to Secondary. This music appeals to an older cohort than It’s the Bible, aimed more at Upper Primary and Junior Secondary.

There is also the option of purchasing an original script for a play that links the stories using all the songs from the CD. Its flexible design allows it to be used as a whole or else each scene can be performed individually. The play and songs have been road tested by their writers in Religious Education lessons!. A songbook is also available and contains melody, chords and lyrics for all the songs on the CD. The format is simple so that children can learn to play the songs.

The playscript, based on the popular TV show, is a great vehicle to communicate the message of the songs in a fun way. Purchase the kit and we include a complementary backing CD which can be used in the production.

Sample of Script:

Compere:

Jesus you are now into your thirties and people are starting to take notice of this young carpenter from Nazareth especially after a speech you gave on a low hill near Capernaum – do you remember these guys?

(Curtain opens to reveal group of hippies sitting around who sing Sermon on the Mount. At the end of the song, Peacemaker joins Jesus and the compere.)

Peacemaker:

Blessed are you Jesus because you brought peace to my heart, man! (Hugs Jesus)

Compere:

Yes it is one of the peacemakers who were present at the Sermon on the Mount.

Peacemaker:

I sure was and I’d never heard anyone talk like this – I’d always wanted to make peace and not war, man, and here is someone telling us that “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be children of God”.

Sample Lyrics

Sermon on the Mount:

Jesus went to the hillside to teach, higher and higher he climbed

So many people came to hear what he had to say

And this is what he said, and this is what he said.

Chorus

Blessed are the gentle for the earth is theirs

Blessed are the merciful…………………