May 26, 2020

House Cleaning


There is no doubt Jesus frowns on the way some churches market themselves today. Prayer, worship and teaching often take a back seat to programs, expansion projects and productions. It occurs to me that COVID-19 restrictions placed on today’s church may have a similar effect to that of Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers in the temple. “Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer, ‘but you are making it a ‘den of robbers’” (Matt 21:12 NIV).


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