Why are you sitting at the tables Jesus flipped?!

Street art in downtown Minneapolis, Minn. after the George Floyd police killing. Photo: Gerald Farinas.

Why are so many of you, who claim to love Jesus, sitting at the very tables He flipped in fury?

Worse—some of you are dragging in new tables, setting them up with polished brass and velvet ropes, collecting power, money, and privilege while stepping over the people Jesus embraced.

You’re not following Christ! You’re selling Him out, just like the moneychangers in the temple.

Jesus flipped those tables in righteous anger because they stood in the way of the people getting to God.

They were tables of greed, exclusion, and exploitation. And what do we see today?

We see people turning the church into a business.

Mega-preachers flying private jets while the widow down the pew can’t afford her medication.

Pastors with million-dollar book deals telling their followers to “trust God” instead of helping fund real needs.

This is not the Gospel.

This is spiritual Ponzi scheming.

Jesus didn’t die so you could build empires in His name.

We see people building walls instead of extending tables.

Refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers are treated like threats.

You quote Scripture to justify locking children in cages.

You cheer when families are deported.

But the same Jesus you claim to follow was a refugee child Himself.

He said, “Whatever you did to the least of these, you did to me.”

So who are you turning away?

Jesus.

Every time.

We see people attacking the poor instead of lifting them up.

Cutting food stamps, demonizing the unhoused, blaming the struggling instead of the system that crushes them.

And then you slap a Bible verse on a campaign ad and call it moral leadership.

But Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor.”

He didn’t say, “Blessed are the billionaires.”

We see people hurting children, silencing women, excluding LGBTQ people—and calling it faith.

Children are told they don’t belong unless they conform.

Women are told to sit down and stay quiet—even our own pastor at Edgewater Presbyterian Church!

LGBTQ people are told to hide or leave.

And you do it all while hiding behind the name of Jesus.

But Jesus healed the bleeding woman, defended the accused woman, praised the outsider, touched the “unclean,” and never once told a gay person they were unworthy of God’s love.

You’re not defending holiness—you’re building altars to your own prejudice.

So I’ll ask again.

Why are you sitting at the tables Jesus turned over?

Why are you protecting the systems He came to dismantle?

You put crosses on your walls and bumper stickers on your cars but refuse to pick up the actual cross of Christ—a cross that bears the weight of the rejected, the despised, the crucified of today.

It’s time to choose.

Tear down your tables—or be ready for Christ to flip them over again. And this time, maybe He’ll flip you with them.