STUDY QUESTIONS FOR GROUPS
By Micah Odor
1. What regular task or chore do you do readily? What task or chore do you avoid if you can get away with it?
2. For whom did you pray last week that God will draw them to himself?
Ask two people to read aloud Jonah 1:1-17 one after the other, preferably from different Bible versions. Then, as a group, take turns recalling the major plot points of the passage without looking at your Bibles. How does the story start? What happens next? And then?
3. Throughout this passage, we see Jonah move “lower” and “lower.” On what occasions do you see Jonah move “down”?
4. How had Jonah’s belief about God’s presence changed between verses 1 and 3?
5. Jonah was the trusted prophet and messenger of the Most-High God, and the people he met on the boat were pagan fishermen. How would you compare Jonah’s words and actions toward God and those of the fishermen?
6. What can we learn about God from this week’s passage?
7. What can we learn about ourselves or others?
8. We might think we’re out of God’s view and out of his reach. Jonah learned the hard way this wasn’t true. What can you learn from his mistakes?
9. Based on what we’ve discussed, what are you doing well?
10. Based on what we’ve discussed, what could you do differently in obeying God this week?
11. Who needs to hear this story, and how will you tell them?
12. Based on our study and discussion, complete this sentence: “This week, I will . . .”
For Next Week: Read and reflect on Jonah 2:1-3, 5-7; 3:5-10; and Joel 2:12-17 as we continue our study of the Early Minor Prophets (Obadiah, Joel, Jonah). You can also read next week’s supplemental texts as well as the Study and Application sections as part of your personal study.
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