Jun 20, 2021
Should you be angry? – Jonah 4:1-11
By: Ben Lairamore
Series: Jonah
Questions for Discussion & Application
  1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this passage?
  2. Did Jonah have any legitimate reason to be angry? How have you struggled with inappropriate anger?
  3. What does Jonah’s anger reveal about him? Consider what your own anger may reveal about yourself.
  4. God provided an object lesson with the withered plant to help Jonah see how he was wrong. What object lessons has God provided for you to learn from? 
  5. What do we learn about the character of God in this chapter? How have you experienced God’s grace, mercy, and love?   
  6. How can we reflect God’s grace, mercy, and love to other undeserving sinners like ourselves?
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  • Jun 20, 2021Should you be angry? – Jonah 4:1-11
    Jun 20, 2021
    Should you be angry? – Jonah 4:1-11
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Jonah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this passage?
    2. Did Jonah have any legitimate reason to be angry? How have you struggled with inappropriate anger?
    3. What does Jonah’s anger reveal about him? Consider what your own anger may reveal about yourself.
    4. God provided an object lesson with the withered plant to help Jonah see how he was wrong. What object lessons has God provided for you to learn from? 
    5. What do we learn about the character of God in this chapter? How have you experienced God’s grace, mercy, and love?   
    6. How can we reflect God’s grace, mercy, and love to other undeserving sinners like ourselves?
  • Jun 13, 2021God’s Undeserved Grace for a Wicked City Jonah 3:1-10
    Jun 13, 2021
    God’s Undeserved Grace for a Wicked City Jonah 3:1-10
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Jonah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this passage?
    2. Has God ever given you a second chance to do something that you failed to do the first time? What did this teach you about God? 
    3. Are you like God in being willing to give others a second (or third or fourth) chance?
    4. Does God HAVE to be compassionate and offer a second chance? (See Acts 5:1-11.)  Can you think of some other examples from Scripture of God giving someone a second chance?  (See John 21:15-19.)
    5. How do we see repentance expressed outwardly by the people of Nineveh? Based on this example of repentance, what evidence should we look for in ourselves and others that our repentance is true?
    6. Is there an area in your life now that requires true repentance? What will you do?           
  • Jun 6, 2021God’s Undeserved Grace for a Disobedient Prophet – Jonah 1:17-2:10
    Jun 6, 2021
    God’s Undeserved Grace for a Disobedient Prophet – Jonah 1:17-2:10
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Jonah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this passage?
    2. Have your choices of disobedience ever led you to a dark and desperate place like Jonah?
    3. What stands out to you the most about Jonah’s prayer? Why? 
    4. When Jonah was totally desperate and his situation seemed hopeless, where did he turn (see verse 7)? Is there any situation in your own life where you need to remember the Lord and call out to Him?  
    5. Did Jonah deserve to be rescued from death? How can we relate to being rescued from death undeservedly? (See Ephesians 2:1-10.)
    6. How has God shown His supernatural power to rescue in your own life?
  • May 30, 2021A Disobedient Prophet & a Sovereign God – Jonah 1:1-17
    May 30, 2021
    A Disobedient Prophet & a Sovereign God – Jonah 1:1-17
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Jonah
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this passage?
    2. Who is like the Ninevites to you?
    3. How has God called you to go outside the status quo in ministering to those who are like the Ninevites to you?
    4. How did God show His sovereignty over Jonah’s life? How has God shown His sovereignty over your own life even in times of disobedience? 
    5. How is the heart of Jonah unlike the heart of God?
    6. Like Jonah, what is God calling you to do that is difficult? Will you obey?       
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