Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Musings on the Daily Lectionary

Jesus isn't so meek and mild into today's reading from Mark 11:12-26. Jesus curses a fig tree and tosses the money changers and vendors out of the Temple. On top of all that, the priests and scribes "were afraid of him."

It's hard to imagine many people being frightened of Jesus in our day. I'm not advocating for a militant image of Jesus, but perhaps a little righteous indignation would be a good idea. Perhaps Martin Luther King Jr. provides a good modern example. He would not use violence, but the power structures he went up against were genuinely afraid of him.

I wonder what things in our congregations and in our individual lives make Jesus angry today. I wonder how we might be frightened if the living Christ moved through our temples.

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