“'God has a really bad habit of using people we don’t approve of,'” Rachel Held Evans once said. “'What makes the gospel offensive is not who it keeps out, but who it lets in.'”

I might tweak Evans’s formulation and put it this way: God has a really bad habit of loving people we don’t approve of. Or maybe this: God has a really bad habit of showing mercy to people we don’t approve of.

Or maybe: God has a really bad habit of extending grace to people we don’t approve of" (Jeff Chu).

Join us this week as we look deeper into one of those people, Zaccheus, the chief tax collector, and what his example might have to teach us about ourselves.

Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa