series: Ancient Cliff Notes
title: Jonah
teacher: Jacob Bender
date: December 9, 2018
scriptures: The book of Jonah, Jonah 1:2, Jonah 3:2, Jonah 4:1-11, Joshua 5, Matthew 12:38-41, Leviticus 16.
Jonah’s story is our story. It is the story of running from the call of God on your life. It is the story of hiding in the comforts that your life has allowed you, knowing that God has more for you than that. It is the story of how we treat people who have hurt us, and how God’s steadfast love stretches even farther than we could even imagine!
It is the only “sign” that Jesus said that we will be given, that shows us that He is the Messiah.
We did a 6 week series through the book of Jonah in 2016 over the election season. To learn more about the story of Jonah, we encourage you to go through the series.
How is it that some people can read a passage, and it be guilt and condemnation and tragedy… and someone else can read the same passage, and it be life, and love, and hope and grace?
We often overlook the fact that sandwiched between the two most informative passages we get on "the gifts of the Spirit" is the most far reaching, famous passage about love in the entire Bible. This is intentional.
