What if we got salvation wrong?
Not completely wrong.
Just far too small.
For many of us, “being saved” meant praying the right prayer, answering an altar call, and securing where we would go after we die.
But what if Jesus was talking about something that also changes what happens while we’re alive?
In this message, Pastor Dan Minor looks at two wealthy men — Zacchaeus and the rich young ruler — and asks why one walks away grieving while Jesus declares that “salvation has come” to the other.
The difference wasn’t a prayer.
It was what happened next.
Zacchaeus recognized the harm he had been part of and decided to repair it. His money changed. His relationships changed. His responsibility to his neighbors changed.
Maybe salvation isn’t simply about getting ourselves into heaven.
Maybe it looks like liberation.
Restoration.
Repair.
Justice.
Generosity.
And becoming the kind of person whose life makes somebody else’s life more whole.
And maybe belonging doesn’t come after transformation.
Maybe belonging is sometimes the very thing that makes transformation possible.
Because the evidence of salvation in Zacchaeus’ life wasn’t a raised hand at an altar.
It was an open hand toward his neighbor.
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