Comments on: A House of Prayer

By: Bryan Riley

Bryan Riley — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:14:19 +0000

Jerald,

You are very right. The video is pretty graphic – taken from Jesus Christ Superstar. I think it illustrates well the way we treat our body. We fill our hearts with all kinds of adulterants.

By: Bryan Riley

Bryan Riley — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:56:46 +0000

I definitely think Jesus was angry. Anger is a human emotion, created by God. It clearly has good purposes, but most of the time our old man selves, marred with sin, use anger in the wrong way. I think He was angry; He just didn’t “lose it” like we do because He was motivated by love, even while having the emotion of anger.

By: Jerald

Jerald — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:17:48 +0000

It's also a shame the way the body, the temple of the living God, is treated when we abuse it the way we are apt to do. When we really do appropriate Christ in us, the hope of glory, it changes how this physical body is valued. Jerald's last blog post..Revealing God’s Glory -

By: Bob Cleveland

Bob Cleveland — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:46:10 +0000

Everyone assumes that Jesus was angry when He “cleansed the temple”. I don’t.

I think the reason we presume that is that we’d never take such radical action unless we “lost it” in anger; Jesus, however, was under no such constraint. He simply always did the right thing.

And what’s worse, to me, is people selling things in church lobbies. Before and after services, like visiting musicians. Not only do we NOT do anything about that, but we tell folks to go buy something, to “invest in their ministry”.

My response, when I walk in for a service and there’s the group selling CD’s in the lobby, is to turn around and leave. Jesus may decide one day to show up and do something about it, and I don’t want to be there when it happens.

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