After the whole city of Nineveh repented, you would have thought Jonah would have been ecstatic – it was an incredibly successful street outreach!
However, his self-righteous prayer shows just how much he still had to learn about the mercy of God. We may be the means of God’s mission, but we must also heed the message for ourselves.
Despite our disobedience, God refuses to give up on us – his mission is far too important. Through Jonah, God used a message of judgement to change a whole city. As we are obedient to God’s missional call, we may well be surprised by how people respond.
Only 1 month to go before our Church Day Away!
In the middle of a crisis, most people will try praying. It took being swallowed by a fish for Jonah to finally pray to his God and to remember salvation is found in him alone.
Like Jonah, we often try in vain to run from God’s call to mission, but he will use any means necessary to get our attention and to expose our fears and prejudices: sometimes storms, sometimes the very people we are trying so hard to avoid.
A look back at the previous month, and a look forward to what’s coming up.
A celebration of salvation. We joined together and heard from different voices sharing what God has done in their lives, and we remembered the significance of the resurrection for us all.
We all want peace: world peace and personal peace. But do we know what will bring us the peace we all seek?
In his final week on earth, Jesus entered a city that was in turmoil, but they didn’t recognise him as the one who offered the only thing we all really need – peace with God.
We’re out doing some Easter outreach in Salford tomorrow, from 10am till 12:30pm! We’ve got less numbers than previously anticipated, so it’d be great to have some more people willing to join us down on Salford Precinct, just outside the Tesco. We’ll be handing out leaflets, singing worship songs, and spreading the Gospel through conversations…
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This is the word that earliest Christians would repeat to one another – a cry that Jesus would come quickly. That history would be resolved. That all would be well. It’s a good prayer!
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