Change is seldom easy

Wednesday March 18th, John 2: 13 Not long before the Jewish festival of Passover, Jesus went to Jerusalem. 14 There he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves in the temple. He also saw moneychangers sitting at their tables. 15 So he took some rope and made a whip. Then he chased everyone out of the temple, together with their sheep and cattle. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins. To change the focus on temple worship, there needed to be a bit of housecleaning. Change comes hard, we are experiencing that now. Worship is more than going through the motions, more than bringing your offering, setting through a sermon, singing a few songs that you would never listen to if they were on the radio, and talking to a few people until you can get out the door and onto your own life. Jesus replaced simply doing sacrifice with his own body and blood, now people complain about the wine and the bread. What thought systems in your life need to be changed to return church to worship? What in worship needs to be changed to change church to Worship? Remember that answer is never going back to what we used to do. What will be fresh about your worship this week?