Introduction

Scene I: The Angry Prophet’s Hypocritical Justice (4:1-4)

Jonah Attacks

God Asks

Scene II: The Good God’s Tender Mercy (4:5-10)

Jonah Abandons

God Acts

God Asks

Discussion Questions

1. What do you think the key idea of this sermon was?
2. What kind of heart do you have? One like Jonah (angry, selfish)? Or one like God (patient, merciful)?
3. When does your “justice sense” lead to sinful anger? (E.g., when my mom says…, when my brother…, at school…)
4. Do you believe that God is truly merciful? Why or why not?
5. What does the poem Coming Around mean?
6. Pray for one another this summer, to spend more time thinking about and practicing God’s mercy.

COMING AROUND
By Thomas John Carlisle

And Jonah stalked
to his shaded seat
and waited for God
to come around
to his way to thinking

And God is still waiting
for a host of Jonahs
in their comfortable houses
to come around
to His way of loving.