(4 readers spread out across the stage.  Each person steps forward to deliver her lines, then steps back.  Must be delivered forcefully and with conviction.)

Reader One: “Four hundred and fifty: the estimated number of Christians killed daily around the world for their faith.”1

Reader Two: “Thirty-nine: the age of German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer when he was executed by the Nazis during World War II.  He once wrote, ‘Cheap grace is a grace without discipleship, grace without the cross.’” 2

Reader Three: “Twelve: the number of disciples who gave up their old lives in order to follow Jesus.”

Reader Four: “Eight: the number of years that Pastor Richard Wurmbrand of Romania was imprisoned and tortured …