We all know what it feels like to be labeled. Sometimes we are labeled by something we did. Sometimes by something others assume about us. Sometimes by a season of life we wish people would stop bringing up. And sometimes the hardest label to get past is the one we have quietly placed on ourselves.

Pastor Mark Garrett begins the new series, Pull Up a Chair, with a message from Luke 19:1–10 called He Sees You.

The story of Zacchaeus is one of the most familiar stories in the Bible, but Luke gives us far more than a children’s song about a little man in a tree. This is a story about money, shame, power, exclusion, mercy, repentance, repair, and salvation. Zacchaeus was a man everybody had already categorized. The crowd saw a sinner, a traitor, and a problem. Jesus saw a person.

And before Zacchaeus had cleaned up his life, Jesus called him by name.

This message looks at the surprising grace of Jesus, the difference between being exposed and being redeemed, and what happens when grace moves from a moment of welcome into a life of repair. Because when Jesus sees us, he does not reduce us to our worst chapter. He calls us out of hiding and toward something new.