Next week we will begin a short series on Jonah. I will not be doing the class but my friend Aaron will step into my place. We need to understand two things about Jonah.
First, though Jonah is about evangelism it is not about the fear of evangelism but the idolatry of making our nation or our family or our church or whatever the reason why we do not want to do evangelism.
Second, we need to notice that key verse in Jonah and maybe in all scripture is Jonah 2:9, "Salvation is of the Lord."
Two things to keep in mind while we study Jonah together.
And don't forget the fish, he only makes a cameo appearance, he is not central to the story.
2 comments:
One of my favourite bible verses is Jonah 3:1, and how it speaks volumes about how God is a God who longs to restore his people to himself. I'm looking forward to your blog entries ..
Racism seems to play a central part in Jonah - a feature not tackled by too many evangelical writers. Seems like Jonah was a nationalistic prophet, based on 2 Kings 14:25, and this attitude would fit with the challenge he faced in going to Nineveh.
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