The Zacchaeus Effect

Aug 18, 2019  •  Joe Johns  •  The Radical Middle

Zacchaeus was despised by Jesus’ peers. A Roman sellout, he embodied everything wrong with society. He was the left-wing liberal threat to the conservative crowd of his day, embodying all of what was threatening Jewish life as they knew it.

But Jesus pursued relationship over politics and treated Zacchaeus as a person. He invited him with grace and so softened his heart to hear him speak Truth.

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