Cy-fair Christian Church

Use your imagination for a moment. Jesus has just entered Jerusalem. He is riding on a colt. The people shout “Hosanna to the Son of David…Save us we pray.” They lay their cloaks and palm branches in front of Jesus as he proceeds down the road. They welcome their long awaited King. It is a little strange that the first thing Jesus does is run people out of the temple. As Jesus is kicking out the money-changers, the sheep and dove sellers, he says, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” The money changers and sacrifice sellers had set-up shop in The Court of Gentiles, the only part of the temple where Gentiles were allowed to go. Gentiles were forced to worship and pray with all this commotion going on. Imagine trying to worship and pray with the “cha-ching” of the cash registers, the squabbling of the salesmen and their patrons, or the bleating of the sheep and cooing of the doves.