Comment: Before I got started telling story sermons and dramatizing Bible stories at the church I was serving, I was invited to take part in a Good Friday ecumenical service. Instead of the Seven Last Words, we were asked to preach on the "Seven Other Words." I was assigned "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews."

At the time, our city had a rash of police brutality incidents. One in particular had caused a great uproar in the city. A young African-American man stopped to see if he could help at the scene of an accident. As he was returning to his car, a police officer grabbed him and accused him of robbing a nearby store. He protested his innocence to no avail. In anger, he struggled to free himself of the officer's grasp. The officer then put a neck hold on him that rendered the young ma…