By Every Word - Sermons & Teaching Archive from Vernon Johnson

Jesus Visits the Jericho Mafia Boss | Zacchaeus & Luke 19:1-10


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We're more followed, more friended, more liked, and more alone than we've ever been. The U.S. Surgeon General has called loneliness a public health epidemic, and the data backs it up. So what's the answer?

In this message from our 'Pull Up a Chair' series, we walk through Luke 19:1-10, the story of Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector of Jericho, and discover that Jesus' primary strategy for transformation wasn't preaching from a stage. It was pulling up a chair at someone's table.

We explore what it meant for Jesus to eat with the most despised man in town, why the word 'seek' in Luke 19:10 changes everything we think about the gospel, and what happens when someone who's been found becomes a finder.

Key topics: the loneliness epidemic, the power of shared meals, Zacchaeus and Jesus, Luke 19:1-10, what it means to seek and save the lost, and how hospitality becomes a gospel practice.

Part of the 'Pull Up a Chair' series on biblical community and radical hospitality.

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