Lose Your Plastic Jesus
// October 5th, 2009 // No Comments » // Christian Living, Video
I found this video compelling (and clever).  It also brings up a subject that I think about a lot: the oversimplification of the gospel.  I wonder if the Church, in an effort to reach more people, have presented a “plastic Jesus” to potential converts.  A Jesus that is a caricature of the real thing.  Jesus get misrepresented as either unconcerned about sin, hell and rebellion or as loveless, angry and breathing fire out of his nostrils at all sinners of the world.
By the way I hear some preachers talk, you’d think Jesus is disinterested completely in the fate of the world that He came to save as though He’s a petulant child.   Still others make Him seem powerless and worried.  All of them 2-dimensional.
How many times have we reduced Him to a sound-bite at the end of a meeting or only displayed a 2-dimensional version of Him to our friends? Â Perhaps that’s, at least in part, the reason why so many people simply fizzle out into mediocrity. Â And maybe that’s why we so often find it impossible to trust Him.
Toss your plastic Jesus in the trash can and seek out the real one. Â See Him healing the sick, touching the leaper, calling the Pharisees dogs, displaying His glory at the Mount of Transfiguration, dying in humility and victory at the cross. Â Imagine Him returning for His spotless Bride at the end of days. Â See Him as the hero of this great story of the gospel.