We Christians need to get our houses in order. Our churches which ought to be the home of sinners and communities of love and prayer have become dens of thieves. It is clear that Pope Francis is addressing some of the financial irregularities in the Roman Church, no doubt he has a long way to go. But I really felt of Justin Welby the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. He spoke out about pay day lenders and money lenders. He backs small church backed saving and loans schemes only to discover to his embarrassment and irritation that his own church community had invested money with Wonga, a well advertised pay day loan company.
All four Gospels record Jesus rejecting the money lenders from the temple. This shows that it did happen and that all the authors of the Gospels and their communities saw that this was very important. Jesus got angry and upturned their tables.
We ought to follow Our Lord's example, get motivated and throw the money lenders out of our Churches. We need to focus on God, on love not on money.
"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."
"Let us pray that we and our church leaders can refocus our church on Christ, to reject worldly things, vain things and money."
Bishop rejects Wonga
http://news.sky.com/story/1120531/welby-defends-wonga-after-church-link-emerges
