What if sometimes the faithful thing to do is break something?
In Mark 2, four friends carry a paralyzed man to Jesus, only to discover that the doorway is blocked.
So they climb onto the roof.
And tear it open.
In The Faith of Vandals, Pastor Dan Minor asks what this story might say to a church that has spent generations protecting its buildings, traditions, theology, and systems while too many people remain outside trying to find healing, safety, dignity, and belonging.
Because exclusion doesn’t always look like hostility.
Sometimes nobody says, “You’re not welcome.”
Sometimes the space was simply designed without you in mind.
Sometimes the door technically exists, but you still can’t get through it.
And when that happens, faith may look like refusing to blame the person on the mat and instead changing the building.
This is a message about communal faith, privilege, accessibility, justice, and becoming the kind of people willing to carry one another when someone cannot make it on their own.
Sometimes we are the ones carrying the mat.
Sometimes we are the ones being carried.
And sometimes faith means looking at a closed door and deciding:
We’ll make another way.
Because maybe the miracle isn’t always that God suddenly opens a door.
Sometimes the miracle is that we finally become willing to make one.
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