Turning the Tables

My sermon text for Sunday is Matthew 21:12-17. I figure it must be an important text, because it shows up in all four of the Gospels. In it, Jesus comes into the temple, and seeing that it is not being used for its intended purpose, turns the tables. He calls the people back to their original intended purpose of prayer and ministry.

Have the church gotten away from its intended purpose? N.T. Wright says that Jesus turned the tables because he's been healing the sick in the Temple - that's not what the Pharisees wanted. In turning over the tables, Jesus is making room for everyone to experience God's grace. Has the church become a stumbling block for God's grace to work? Are we so fixated on maintaining the current body or membership that we cannot die to ourselves? Are we so intent on having a certain style of worship that we forget that worship isn't about us? Is the church really reaching the lost and the least? What would Jesus say if he walked in to our church today? Would he turn the tables on us, or say "Well done, good and faithful servants?"