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Dilemma: What will you do with your old WWJD bracelet[s]?

Possible Solution[s]:

• They make wonderful collars for small dogs and cats--even your ferret can get a lil' Jesus love on.
• Turn your lust-a-lot Barbie into a bona fide believer with a WWJD "bracelet" headband or belt.
• At the next wedding you attend, forget about throwing rice and birdseed or blowing bubbles--toss your WWJD bracelet at the newly christened husband and wife.
• Hang your old bracelets on any doorknob. It's a great conversation piece.
• If you have more than six bracelets, put them all on your next bottle of Dr. Pepper--they'll keep your hand from getting wet! WWJD bracelets make the coolest coozies.
  
• Cut them up and use them as bookmarks. This way you are guaranteed to finish all your assigned reading--c'mon, Jesus wouldn't sluff off on his studies would he?

There is a reason why postmodern heretics, from feminist theologians to ecumenical pluralists, would rather talk about “God” than Jesus. And there is a reason why so many of the most heated controversies in church history have been Christological. “God” is an abstract enough concept that it can be defined impersonally, as “the divine” or the “Ground of Being.” So the liberal divinity school theologian can speak in terms of “God covenanting with Godself to redeem God's people and to bring them into God's land.” The pluralist dialogue partner can speak of “God” at work as Allah, Vishnu, and whatever Marianne Williamson is calling divine these days.

The gritty flesh and blood reality of Jesus of Nazareth, however, is much more particular and much more exclusive. I think the fatal flaw of contemporary Christianity, on both the right and the left, is what Adrio Koenig called "the eclipse of Christ." We speak of the glory of God, and we aim for “God-centered worship,” but we forget that God's glory is tied up in what Maximus the Confessor called “the Christic mystery,” namely that God's purpose is “to sum up all things in Christ” (Eph. 1:10). Contemporary Christians may have “WWJD” bracelets and other sorts of “Jesus junk” in our closets, but too rarely do we hear the big picture of how our God is no generic God, but the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jesus of Nazareth.

--Russell Moore