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Jonah (Discussion Questions)
Categories: Jonah
Read Jonah
Jonah (Chapters 1 and 2)
- 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.]
- What are lots? (See Shep and Lily: A Lesson about Casting
Lots)
Jonah (Chapters 3 and 4)
- How many times does God ask Jonah to go to Nineveh? [2 times]
- Is Jonah more obedient the second time?
- Why?
- Why didn’t Jonah want to go to Nineveh the first time?
- Was he afraid? [He was afraid the people would be obedient to God and Jonah thought they should be destroyed?]
- Do you ever think someone should be punished rather than forgiven?
- Why is it important that we know God forgives?
- Why is it important that God chooses whom He wants to save over our choices?
- What lessons can we learn about God’s forgiveness?
- Why would we want our dads to learn God’s lesson of forgiveness?
- How many days did it take to get to Nineveh?
- Did the people repent (change their behavior)?
- How did Jonah feel about the people turning to God? [Angry]
- Why was Jonah angry that the people turned to God?
- Wouldn’t you be happy that they gave up their evil ways?
- Why did their turning their lives around upset Jonah? [he wanted them to be punished]
- What did Jonah want God to do to him? [take his life]
- Why does anger make us say things we don’t mean?
- How did God help Jonah with his anger?
- Does the story seem to end abruptly?
- What is Jonah to learn?
- What are we to learn?
- What is prejudice?
- Why was Jonah prejudiced against the people of Nineveh?
- Can you see why we aren’t to judge people?
- Read different translations of the final two chapters and retell the story in your own words.
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