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REFLECT | 'What is going on in our life right now?’

Discuss

• How was your week? Was there anything that you did differently? How did it go? (Not supposed to be condemning, just an acknowledgement) If you could have changed one thing about the week, or done differently, what would have done, and why?

ENGAGE | ‘How do we engage with what God is saying to us?

Jonah 4: 1-4

4 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 

• What do you get angry about?

2 He prayed to the Lord, ‘Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3 Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.’

• How do you respond when you get hurt by someone you know around you?

• How do you respond when you see people who have hurt the people you know?

• What is your response to Jonah’s prayer?

4 But the Lord replied, ‘Is it right for you to be angry?’

• Do you think Jonah was justified in being angry with God?

• Do you think that God should have punished Ninevah despite her repentance?

• How quick are you to forgive? do you hold grudges? Spend some time in silence and ask God now to reveal anyone who you may need to forgive.
  
  
  

INSPIRE | - ''How do we inspire each other to do something different this week? What opportunities are in front of us, that we can choose to explore?’

Discuss

• What ONE thing am I going to take the opportunity to do differently this week?

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