When the House Is Unsafe

Jesus, You flipped tables when Your Father’s house was sold. You laid down Your life; You never sheltered those in control. Put the weight back on the shepherd. Lift it from the torn. Let repentance have a body. Let the truth be reborn. Jesus, cut out the systemic rot. Save Your sheep from the gods we made. Break the locks on the boardroom doors. Drag every secret into grace. Not for vengeance. Not for show. Make Your house what Your heart has taught: Truth with mercy. Power bowed. Jesus, cut out the systemic rot. “Church hurt”—make the wound sound small. Like sheep chose the teeth when the shepherd let them fall. Pulpit dressed as Heaven, boardroom bolted tight. Question what was hidden: rebellion overnight. “Touch not the anointed” gets pulled like a blade. Submission for the wounded; shepherd’s debt unpaid. Forgive before the truth. Move on before the grief. Call avoidance mercy, call the cover-up belief. Protect the name, the budget, the donor and the brand. While the bleeding learn exile by the shepherd’s hand. One voice costs less than the structure they defend. Bury one witness. Call the crisis at an end. Jesus, when the house is unsafe, Hands no longer clean, Stay beside the wounded witness No one else will hear or see. When we break the one who tells the truth To keep the picture whole, Name the peace that needs their silence: Fear disguised as control. The pews see the fracture running through the frame. But the mirror says their silence helped preserve a trusted name. Easier to doubt the one who says the place is unsafe. Call it gossip, call it bitter, make reaction take the blame. “Protect the Gospel from the headlines and the shame,” As though Jesus needs the darkness to defend His holy name. NDAs, closed doors, quiet exits down the hall. Clean press release while trust is dying in the walls. Confession shows the watching world the evidence of grace. It’s the lie behind the logo that profanes the holy place. Father, keep me from the easy side, From defending what is mine. If I guard a name above a person, Pull my motives into light. Give the wounded room to speak. Give the guilty knees to bend. Give Your Church courage to lose what must be lost, So no lie is sheltered in Your name again. NO MORE— Forgiveness without repentance. NO MORE— Submission without sacrifice. NO MORE— Peace that depends on silence. Strip the idol from the pulpit. BRING THE BODY INTO LIGHT. Jesus, cut out the systemic rot. Save Your sheep from the gods we made. Break the locks on the boardroom doors. Drag every secret into grace. Not for vengeance. Not for show. Make Your house what Your heart has taught: Truth with mercy. Power bowed. Jesus, cut out the systemic rot. Your Bride is not a building. Your name is not a brand. Your Gospel never fears the truth. Mercy does not cancel consequence. Lord, heal the ones we blamed. Make leaders low. Make justice clean. Start in me. Then through Your house. Leave no hidden rot beneath the cross.