Selling the church

 

I recently read a passage in the Bible that shocked me. It is RIGHT after the triumphal entry. Jesus enters a temple, and he finds that the followers have destroyed the place, setting up markets to buy and sell. (It can be found in Mark 11:15-17). Jesus drives them out of the temple. He was pretty darn upset with them for trying to sell things in the building that was supposed to be a refuge for the hurting and a place to come and seek forgiveness and restoration.

Gee, sounds a lot like our Churches today.

Wait, we don’t sell anything, you say!

Or do we?

We sell our relationship with our savior for the tithe money. We sell our relationship with our God for a “religious clique.” We sell false worship with false lights to create the illusion of worship, when we don’t even understand it ourselves. We sell that we are put together, and that our lives are complete, and we are perfect.

I dream that one day we will gather a broken people, bruised and crushed by the world. I dream that we come stripped of everything, in absolute desperation for our Father’s love. I dream we will stand united, under the same grace, and forgiveness.