Dear CrossPointe,
I’m excited to begin our journey through the book of Jonah this Sunday! There’s no doubt that this little book is one of the most famous in all of the Bible, and that’s almost exclusively due to one extraordinary—but rather small—detail: Jonah gets swallowed by a great fish. But once we step back to see the book as a whole, what’s it actually about? To ask another way, what does Jonah mean to teach us? This is what we’ll seek to ask and answer.
Do yourself a favor and read through Jonah before Sunday. My guess—if you’re like me—is that you’ll be left with more than a few unanswered questions. And as a hint, those unanswered questions are used in Jonah to direct us to see what is most important in this (very true) story!
Tyler