Church Is Messy: Jonah week 3 - Repentance

Church is Messy

Rick and Svea make light of finally getting to "the whale" and how this is often given the lion's share of the messaging about Jonah when it's really an insignificant element of the story. This week's episode drips with challenges to go deeper and looking at what the text is actually saying.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:33 Svea is struck by how many of us grew up with a child-like level of understanding of the book of Jonah.
• 05:00 For many the focus of the book is on a very small part of the story - and with the wrong intent. The large fish wasn't a means of punishment but a means of grace.
• 08:17 God's provision and grace can often times be an opportunity to learn or practice humility.
• 10:30 We may not have the same fears of the sea as in the time of Jonah, but we do have a fear of chaos and death. The global pandemic exposed our big fish.
• 12:54 Western Christians can learn much from the global church.
• 14:51 Vince Lombardi: fatigue makes cowards of us all.
• 18:47 Holding all of our fears, pains, insecurities, etc. before God.
• 22:43 Jonah's prayer in chapter 2.
• 27:09 In chapters 3 & 4 we'll see examples of external repentance, but no evidence of an internal repentance. Are there things we're doing right on the outside but on the inside we're still hostile to God?