This is the fundamental difference between human religion and Christianity. Whereas human religion puts the likes of Zacchaeus, the greedy CEO, and others like them into the category of “them” or “the bad people,” Christianity says that we are all the same. All of us, without exception, are hopelessly stuck and isolated in sin and selfishness—unless and until Jesus looks up at us in the tree, calls us by name, and tells us to hurry up and come down to him because he is coming to our house today. Understanding this humbling reality, and letting it get massaged deeply into our hearts so that it
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