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

Discuss

• Did you manage to implement the ONE THING you said you were going to do differently this week? Why/Why not? (Not supposed to be condemning, just an acknowledgement)

• How was your week? What was good? What would you want to go back and do differently?

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

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

• What do you think of the way God is responding to Jonah’s anger?

5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. 6 Then the Lord God provided a leafy plant[a] and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant. 7 But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered. 8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, ‘It would be better for me to die than to live.’

9 But God said to Jonah, ‘Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?’

‘It is,’ he said. ‘And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.’

• How is Jonah’s response similar to a response in the Parable of the Lost Son? (CLICK HERE)

10 But the Lord said, ‘You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left – and also many animals?’

• What do you understand about God, when you read his response to Jonah?

• How do we see the God’s character in Jesus? (CLICK HERE)

• What ‘things/stuff’ have we become attached to? What impact does that have on our lives?

• What impact has reading this book had on you?

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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