What exactly do Christians worship when they worship Jesus?

Jesus is worshiped for the same reason people have worshiped all gods—there is a benefit to it. In the case of Jesus, the ultimate benefit is eternal bliss and the ultimate penalty for failing to do so is eternal torment. But these are “reasons” for worshiping Jesus, not Jesus himself. What I want to know is what exactly are Christians worshiping when worshiping Jesus?

Let’s assume for the sake of the argument here that Jesus actually lived and was who he said he was. It seems we have his body, his mind, his message, his actions and his essence or being (God) to consider.

I would assume Christians don’t worship his human body which was hardly extraordinary. Perhaps they worship his resurrected body but it seems strange to worship a body, even one that can float into the sky, fly through space and alight on some distant throne.

Do they worship his mind — his message? Though some of his ideas were certainly excellent, nothing he uttered was original and certainly nothing was extraordinary. In fact, he was not even as enlightened as his contemporaries who argued against the evil of slavery while he remained silent leading to countless humans being bought and sold like animals with the approval of the church. His promise to torture people forever beyond the grave seems a bit lacking in the areas of compassion and empathy and led to the mental anguish of countless others. These two examples alone are reason enough not to praise such a mind and even if we found no fault with the message, surely Christians aren’t worshiping a message.

Is it perhaps his actions that are praise-worthy? Miracles and such? But then one is hardly worshiping “Jesus” but merely long ago “actions”.

Is it that worshiping Jesus is worshiping “God”? If we assume that “God” is the character revealed in the bible then shouldn’t we ask ourselves if we really want to worship a being who committed, commanded and condoned mass killings of men, women and children and myriad other distasteful things along with his more pleasant ones? Even if we justify such wickedness, these are “actions” not God himself leaving us with nothing to hang our hat on.