Hope changes thingsLuke 19:1-10Length: Standard

1 Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

• Read
• Reread
• Retell

2 Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

1. What does this passage show me about God?

   • What does Jesus do when he sees Zacchaeus in the tree, and how does Zacchaeus respond?

2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

   • What part of your life would you most love to see hope change the way it changed Zacchaeus?

3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

   • Zacchaeus made things right with the people he had wronged — what step like that will you take this week?

4. Who will I tell?

   • Who that everyone else has written off could you go out of your way to welcome?

3 Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).