REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

 

TOPIC: “Life’s Ups and Downs”

 

ICEBREAKER:

 

Have each member share most adventurous or dangerous place they have been or thing they have done? (war story, storm survived, car wreck, coaster ride.)

 

TEXT:   The Book of Jonah

 

QUESTIONS:

 

  1. Why did God pick Jonah for this job and where did God send him? Jonah1:1,2

 

  1. What happened to Jonah while was running from his assignment?

 

  1. When the sailors saw what happened what did they do?   Jonah 1:15,16

 

  1. Do you remember a time when you ran from God and did it work?

 

  1. What did Jonah do that turned his situation around? Jonah 2:1-10  especially verse 9

 

  1. How serious did the people of Nineveh take this warning from God? Jonah 3:5-10

 

  1. Do you think God is happy with this nation and what are 3 things he would like for us to change?

 

  1. Jonah’s name means “dove” and his father’s name means truth.  In what way does Jonah symbolize the role of the Holy Spirit?

 

  1. God spoke to Jonah through a gourd and a worm.

 

  1. Through what or whom has God spoken to you?