cleansing of the temple
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In all of the order of the Temple, we struggle to see the mess underneath; why things need to change; and even what to do about it.
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What Jesus is up to in the Temple is distracting. But not nearly as much as our attempts to avoid dealing with his critiques of the Temple.
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What is behind Jesus’s outrage at the Temple? And what does it means for us? It begins with how we see our part in the system.
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The move to Jesus’s actions known as the “cleansing” of the Temple offer us different ways to see our conflict and his purpose.
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“On the following day” Read the text: Mark 11:12-19 There are so few opportunities to see the anger of Jesus. We get so lulled by the images of the sweet Jesus, the stained-glass stick figure or the imagined bearded Caucasian with the sheep on his back and the children at his feet, that the Jesus with…