Is Jesus your buddy, your life coach, your financial guru, your fitness trainers, your career counselor, your sex therapist or your wellness instructor?
Or is Jesus your Lord? Is Jesus your great God and Savior?
This statue was featured in the movie Dogma. It goes by the name Buddy Christ and has spawned an entire cultural phenomena. Flickr.com has hundreds of photographs of people with Buddy Jesus, or dressed as Buddy Christ or showing off their Buddy Jesus dashboard doll or bobble-head figure. There is even a Church of Buddy Christ.
The really tragic part of this is that far too many preachers are so hell-bent on preaching 'life application' and/or self-help sermons that their the ones who've trivialized Jesus and his message. Buddy Jesus and all his merchandise reflects an image of Jesus that was created in the pulpits of America long before this idol was ever forged.
