If you're an ESFP, you respond to what's in front of you, you'd rather be with people than think about them, and you don't spend a lot of time working out how something will look before you do it. That whole set is in Luke 19, in a man who ended up hosting Jesus for dinner because he was willing to be seen climbing a tree.
He Ran Ahead and Climbed
Zacchaeus is a chief tax collector in Jericho and he is rich, which in that job means he got rich off his neighbours. Jesus is passing through. Luke gives us the problem in one line: "He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd" (Luke 19:3).
So here is a wealthy official in a town that already despises him, and his solution is to run ahead of the crowd and climb a sycamore-fig tree.
Think about how that looked. Grown men of standing did not run in public in that culture, and they certainly didn't climb trees in front of the people they collected taxes from. He wanted to see Jesus more than he wanted to keep his dignity, and the decision took about four seconds.
Then Jesus stops under the tree. "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today." And Luke's next line is the giveaway: "So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly" (Luke 19:6).
At once. Gladly. Nobody had to persuade him.
Immediate Isn't Shallow
So the speed of your response is not a lesser kind of faith. Zacchaeus is the fastest yes in Luke's Gospel and Jesus goes home with him that day.
You'll meet Christians who assume a decision made quickly is a decision made carelessly, and there's a version of that which is fair. There's also a version of them that never gets out of the chair. When you feel the pull toward God, go. Sing like you mean it. Say yes to the thing in front of you. Pray out loud in your own words without drafting them first.
And watch what the speed produced in his case. "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount" (Luke 19:8). That's not an emotional moment. That's a man restructuring his finances in public, on the spot, past what the law required of him.
The Part That Comes After the Dinner
Here's the harder half, and it's about Wednesday rather than Sunday.
The energy that gets you into the tree does not, by itself, get you through a long stretch where God feels absent and nothing is happening. Present-focused people can end up with a faith made entirely of high points, and the gaps between them get longer and quieter.
Zacchaeus had to actually pay the money back. Luke doesn't record that part, because the accounts and the repayments and the awkward conversations with everyone he'd cheated took months and don't make a story. That's where he lived out what happened under the tree.
So build one thing that runs without feeling. Ten minutes with a Gospel every morning, at the same time, on the days you're flat as well as the days you're not. It will be the least exciting thing you do and it's the part that carries the rest.
You're Not Too Much
One more thing, and somebody has probably already made you self-conscious about it. Expressive people get told to tone it down in church, usually by people who mistake volume for shallowness.
Zacchaeus welcomed Jesus gladly and the crowd muttered about it. The muttering was not about him being too much. It was about who Jesus was eating with. Jesus answered them, not him: "Today salvation has come to this house" (Luke 19:9).
Your warmth is how a lot of people will first experience the welcome of God. Don't sand it down. Aim it at the person nobody is talking to.
Who Else Responded First
Four letters are a modern invention and scripture is not doing that. It is, however, full of people who moved before they had it worked out.
Zacchaeus runs, climbs, comes down at once, and gives half of it away. Matthew leaves the tax booth mid-shift. The Samaritan woman abandons her water jar and goes to tell the whole town. And the shepherds, on the strength of one announcement, leave the field that night to go and look.
Do the Next Thing
Do the next thing rather than reading about it. Say yes to one person this week and be there when you said. Pray out loud in your own words, unrehearsed. Set one ten-minute habit and keep it on the flat days, because that's the one that costs you. And find the person standing alone at church and go stand with them, since you're the one in the room who can.
Zacchaeus wanted to see Jesus badly enough to look ridiculous doing it, and Jesus stopped walking, looked up, and invited himself over.