Jonah (Discussion Questions)

Read Jonah

• What was Jonah asked to do?
• Why didn't he do it?
• Where did he go instead?
• What happened?
• What is the moral issue here? (disobedience, willfulness, prejudice, lack of integrity?)
• Did Jonah express integrity? When? [He owns up to being the cause of the storm.]
• Discuss a life of integrity and how it relates to the interview with Gen. Ostenberg.
• What are lots? (see Shep and Lily)
• Would you flip a coin to see whether you should obey God?
• Has God ever asked you to do something? Did you do it?
• Why is it a bad idea to refuse God?
• What lessons do you learn from the story of Jonah?