“I don’t care if it rains or freezes
‘Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through my trials and tribulations
And my travels through the nations
With my plastic Jesus I’ll go far”

While these 60′s folk song lyrics are a little tongue and cheek, unfortunately they can sometimes be a little closer to the truth than most of us would like to admit. If you are anything like me, you will at times find yourself imagining Jesus as the Jesus you think he should be, or perhaps ‘moulding’ him into something you can get your head around.  This isn’t helped by all sorts of misconceptions or misunderstandings we can have about Jesus which distort the truth of who he really was and is.  What does your plastic Jesus look like?  Is Jesus just a good luck charm to help us get through life?

Here at Edge Kingsland we aren’t satisfied with Plastic Jesus, we want the real thing.  And so at School we are setting out to dismantle the plastic Jesus and go in search of the real one.

Come and join us, 7pm each Thursday in June in the café, as we explore some of the misconceptions that exist about Jesus and look into who he really was and is.  Each week will have a different focus, looking at one area/set of misconceptions and searching for the true Jesus.  There will be plenty of room for questions and discussion, so come along and let’s ‘Dismantle the Plastic Jesus’ together.

If we don’t, who knows what he might become:

“If I weave around at night
And policemen think I’m tight
They never find my bottle, though they ask
Plastic Jesus shelters me
For His head comes off, you see
He’s hollow, and I use Him for a flask”