Whip it Good
by R.C. Sproul Jr.

It isn't that the moneychangers were making money

I'm perpetually puzzled over how easy it is for us to believe we are past something. We read through the Bible, and every time some black-hatted person does some wicked deed, we think, "How could they be so stupid, evil, blind, etc." And then we evilly, stupidly, blindly fall into the same ditch.

Consider the moneychangers. How many of us are honestly worried about them sneaking back into the temple? Worse still, how many of us are honestly worried that we might be them? Having just returned from the CBA convention in Anaheim, I think I can say with confidence that this is one problem we haven't quite whipped.

The problem with the moneychangers wasn't that they were making money. In like manner, I'm not appalled at the thought to bookstores, publishers, and authors are being paid for their labors. (Though this too could be a blind spot since I am an author, and my good friend Rick Saenz is a publisher and bookseller.) What appalls me is the selling out of the very character of God, the commercialization of Jesus Himself. Though I wasn't there for the Sunday service, I had some friends who were. The same thing happened as happened when I went to the Sunday service ten years ago in Orlando. In the middle of the service, after a Christian pop star or two had belted out a solo or two, some suit comes to the pulpit and says, "This worship service is being brought to you by Sparrow records." (N.B. It may not have been Sparrow, but it was some Christian record company.)

If some company is advertising in the middle of it, then what we have is a commercial, not a worship service. Thankfully I never attended a CBA during the WWJD era, or else I just might have found myself doing what Jesus did.

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