Pastors Use Comic Books to Inspire Their Churches

Is the Bible enough to inspire church attenders? Well apparently not…

When H. Michael Brewer watches Mr. Fantastic, The Thing, the Invisible Woman and the Human Torch battle Dr. Doom in the movie “Fantastic Four,” he’ll be seeing something much larger — a metaphor for the church.

The Villa Hills pastor has been a comic-book fan since before he learned to read, and for almost as long, he’s drawn parallels between superheroes and religion.

“Intuitively, I probably made the connection at a very early age,” he said.
In the case of the Fantastic Four, Brewer likes to think of them as an unconventional family — four individuals brought together by a crisis (exposure to cosmic radiation that gave them their powers).

Just like the diversity in the church, each member of the foursome has his or her own problems — The Thing is disfigured by the accident; the Invisible Woman is loving and generous but taken for granted; the Human Torch is a teenager with a temper; and Mr. Fantastic, the leader, feels responsible for the group because of his role in the accident.

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