A story on the theme of Acts 2.1-21

Theme: Once filled by the Holy Spirit, will you be a filler of others with the Good News or an emptier?

Change the names and genders and parental configurations as works best for your context.

Scotty had two friends, Phillip and Cory. They were best friends and played together all the time. They lived near one another and so played at each other’s houses.  But they were boys and sometimes got rambunctious -- a little to wild. When that happened, sometimes the mom or dad whose house they were at had to make them sit down in separate rooms or corners of the backyard and calm down. Because of that sometimes Scotty was only allowed to have one friend over at a time. 

One day Scotty’s mom asked him if he would like to invite a friend over, but just one because she had lots to do around the house and couldn’t be watching them too closely. He said that he would and that he’d like Phillip to come over. His mom stopped for a moment and asked why the last few times he was only asking for Phillip to come over and not Cory. Scotty thought for a while and as he thought he realized that it was because it was not as much fun any more to just have Cory come over. Cory had gotten kind of selfish. Whenever they were going to play a game, Cory always insisted on going first or of having the best choice of characters in the game. If they played a ball game, he always wanted the best ball or bat. If they had a snack, he always seemed to grab more than his fair share. By the time, Cory left Scotty was feeling a little empty like Cory had drained something out of him and it didn’t feel good.

It was different with Phillip. He was willing to share and take is turn or even let Scotty go first. He didn’t try to hog things or grab what was Scotty’s. When Phillip went home, Scotty felt like he had gotten some gifts and he was sorry to see him go.

When the three of the boys played together, Cory wasn’t such a problem, but when it was just Cory and Scotty, it didn’t feel so good.

Later that day, after Phillip and he and played and Phillip had gone home, Scotty just sat quietly for a little while and wondered what kind of friend he was? What his friends thought of him? Did they think that he took things away from them when they were together or did they like to have him around because when he was with them they always had more than they started with?