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JONAH 3:1-5 - GOD'S WORD: DIVINE MERCY & HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY

Joshua Smith

  1. Describe a time in your life when you sought a word from the Lord? What were you after (an answer, forgiveness, clarity of direction)?

  2. Read Jonah 3:1–5.

    What is the Lord’s word to Jonah? How does the Lord’s message offer divine mercy and demand human responsibility? How does Jonah respond to the word of the Lord, the second time?

    What is the Lord’s word to Nineveh? How does the Lord’s message offer divine mercy and demand human responsibility? How does Nineveh respond to the word of the Lord?

  3. Read John 1:1–18. What does it mean that Jesus is the Word? How is Jesus—fully God, fully human—the fullest expression of God personally addressing his people?

  4. Read 2 Timothy 3:14–4:5. Why does it make a difference to “know from whom you have learned it” (v. 14)? How does understanding God’s Word as a personal address to you change the way you think about teaching ministries, as a teacher and as a recipient?

  5. Where do you need your community to speak God’s mercy and your responsibility into your life?