When Warner Brothers released the latest Superman movie, part of its promotion included a special online Pastor Resource Site on the Man of Steel. Critics complained it was one more blatant Hollywood attempt to use pastors and churches to market a movie, complete with free screenings for pastors, sermon notes, and movie clips. Promotion aside, is it even appropriate to compare Jesus to Superman? Even if we think of him as "the original superhero," doesn't the term itself reduce Jesus from Christ the King to the level of a character in a movie? How can that possibly express the magnificence and mystery of the king of glory, who "is before all things, and in him all things hold together" (Colossians 1:17)?
On the plus side, however, the Man of Steel ministry resources did seem to recognize …