Small Group Questions

1)   Who was the shortest kid in your 4th-grade class? Tallest? Where did you fall between them?

2)   What do you know about tax collectors in biblical times? (Google it if necessary). What kinds of people or occupations are the equivalent of tax collectors today?

3)   Why would Jesus go out of his way to go to a tax collector’s home for a meal? What do you think it cost him in reputation? Did he care about what others thought of him?

4)   Inspired by his time with Jesus, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord (as in prayer) and said he would give half his wealth to the poor and pay back four times those he defrauded. What in the world would cause a normal person to do that???

5)   What does it mean that “radical grace results in radical generosity’? Have you experienced the kind of radical grace that Zacchaeus did?