Don't block the door!

Mark 11:15 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 16 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
This is one of those passages we never outgrow.  Maybe because we see in it Jesus as some hero standing up to bullies.  But we need to make sure we do not become the bad guys; we need to make sure we are not blocking the way for people to come to God.  There were times when even Jesus' followers blocked the way, like the disciples keeping the children from Jesus, or the crowds keeping the sick and seeking out of houses where Jesus was teaching.  Jesus' point is simply this: "Don't get in the way," by your attitude, words, actions, or seeminly spiritual practice.  Open the door and let them in.