You can’t High-5 Touchdown Jesus Any More…

Did you hear about Touchdown Jesus?

The King of Kings, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground Monday night during a fierce thunderstorm.

Ouch.

I think God doesn’t like your taste in statuary, Solid Rock Church of Ohio, you’d best tone it down a bit!

And it seems to me that your poolside decor that cost you a cool quarter-million, according to sources, could have fed one or two COUNTRIES of starving children for a couple of days at least, eh?

And now you’ve got a total of $700,000 in damages.

Oops! There’s the flames. Can I get a “Thank you, Jesus” and an “Amen”?

I visited the Solid Rock Church website and I bet you wouldn’t be a bit surprised to hear that you can not only pay your tithe online—they call it iTithe—but you can shop there too.

Yup. Now that’s what I call a full-service, one-stop shopping kinda church. How convenient.

Huh.

Anyway, there are stories all over the web talking about this story, my favorite is at the Internet Monk … go read the story and then go buy the book “Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality,” by Michael Spencer.

That’s what I’m going to do.

You can read the full story in the Dayton Daily News.

~ by Kimberly Mason on June 16, 2010.