Bush, as you may know by now, is president of the United States. As such, he’s quite famous and a good subject in the surprisingly big market for celebrity impersonations.

With an uncanny physical similarity to the president, Morgan, an appliance salesman in Orlando, Fla., at the time, was asked every day by strangers and customers, “Has anyone ever told you that you look just like George Bush?”

Kathy had seen a Bush impersonator on television and thought her husband was just as good. When her research showed how much money a good impersonator made, she was convinced and couldn’t sleep on the idea any longer.

Morgan, capitalizing on the last days of the Bush presidency, has a book out called “My Life as a Bush…and my heart for imitating Jesus.” It’s a quick, simple read but he offers some profound insights for those who by profession are to make a life imitating someone else. That’s you, Christian.

 Noting there are more than 50 muscles in the human face, he talked about training those muscles to imitate the pictures and video of George Bush’s face that he was studying.

“The more I worked at it, the easier it became,” he said in the book. “In time, I could transform from John to George in the literal blink of an eye or the simple shrug of the shoulders. Then I started working on his voice and mannerisms by watching video after video. The more I practiced, the more like him I became.

“My plan was simple: be more like him, be less like me.”

Morgan draws a great parallel between his hard work to cast his body, voice, mannerisms, gestures and thoughts to that of George Bush to what Christians are to do to make themselves like Jesus. After John the Baptist baptized Jesus and some of John’s crowd started to follow Jesus instead, John is quoted in John 3:30 that, “He must become greater; I must become less.” 

Who among us ever wants to be less? We can have it all. We can be the best we can be. We can reach for the stars.  But in a Christian life, we can never be more than the moon.

 With the president's approval rating hovering at 30 percent—lower at my house—an imitator can run into some pretty vitriolic people who feel free to spit their venom on someone that looks like the source of their anger.

“As an impersonator of the president, I have been jeered because of what he stands for,” Morgan said. “As an image bearer of Jesus Christ, I can expect no less.”

The lessons of impersonation in Morgan’s brief, entertaining book are clear to us. Imitating Christ is a goal of Christians, it requires intentional effort and when we begin to look like Christ to the world, we should expect to be jeered.