Over at the Website Burn Your Plastic Jesus we read: Mark Driscoll, one night only August 27 at the Sydney, AU Entertainment Centre for 2.5 hours. Of what you may ask? The about page fills in a bit more detail:

Mark Driscoll takes a blow torch to the 21st century Jesus… Who else is like Jesus? More songs have been sung to him, more paintings made of him, more books written about him than any other person in human history.

But today, he’s become not much more than a really nice guy. How is that he’s so respectable today, so effete, so impotent? Maybe it’s time to destroy the plastic Jesus we’ve manufactured and rediscover the Jesus of the New Testament.

And then under Mark Driscoll link we’re further informed:

There are few Christian leaders in the world who have generated as much discussion over the past few years as Mark Driscoll. He is widely regarded as one of the most effective Christian communicators in the world…

Driscoll is an intense Bible teacher, who identifies with today’s "Cool Calvinist" movement,… he’s not afraid of using extreme language and colourful stories to make his point,… Burn Your Plastic Jesus is the biggest event of Driscoll’s first visit to Australia. In it, he’ll be taking a blowtorch to the modern, plastic picture of Jesus, "a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life."

Instead, Driscoll wants to take a fresh look at Jesus in the New Testament. As he says, "In Revelation, Jesus is a prize-fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone BLEED. That is a guy I can worship."

Some preachers have such a phobia for repetition and such an unnatural fear of the familiar that they are forever straining after the odd and the startling… We dare not impugn the honesty or the sincerity of the men who thus flap their short wings so rapidly in an effort to take off into the wild blue yonder, but we do deplore their attitudes.

–A.W. Tozer