Face Off: It’s Not Even Fair

Read Jonah 4:1-11

Icebreaker — What is your favorite pastime activity? What benefit has it brought to your life?

1. What are your initial impressions of this passage?
   

2. What insights about God’s character as well as His interaction with Jonah stand out to you?
   

3. In what specific ways is your attitude before God similar to Jonah’s?
   

4. How, if at all, has missions work or taking the gospel to the nations been part of your Christian story?
   

5. Can you think of any person, group of people, or nation that you’d have a hard time believing they came to saving faith in Christ as a result of repentance?
   

6. What idolatries do you personally possess? For Jonah, control, comfort, earthly desires, and stubbornness towards God’s agenda influenced his heart. Do you honestly believe God is okay with your idolatries?
   

7. What do you want to remember or apply as a result of studying the book of Jonah?
   

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
Matthew 6:9-13