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:
- Why did God pick Jonah for this job and
where did God send him? Jonah1:1,2
- What happened to Jonah while was
running from his assignment?
- When the sailors saw what happened what
did they do? Jonah 1:15,16
- Do you remember a time when you ran
from God and did it work?
- What did Jonah do that turned his
situation around? Jonah 2:1-10
especially verse 9
- How serious did the people of Nineveh take this warning from God? Jonah
3:5-10
- Do you think God is happy with this
nation and what are 3 things he would like for us to change?
- Jonah’s name means “dove” and his
father’s name means truth. In what
way does Jonah symbolize the role of the Holy Spirit?
- God spoke to Jonah through a gourd and
a worm.
- Through what or whom has God spoken to
you?