Church Is Messy: Jonah Week 5 - God's Compassionate Love

The roles are reversed: Rick asks Svea about her message on Jonah and we get insight into what didn't make it into the message this past week.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:33 Believing God is gracious, compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love at the heart level banishes fear, heals hurts, and melts anger.
• 04:00 How do you recognize the real ugliness and brokenness in the world that touches our lives, remember who God is and what we're like in him in such a way we are not angry people?
• 08:12 What was left on the cutting room floor?
• 09:17 Answer: Jonah didn't want to be seen as a fool to the Ninevites or his own people because God relented on overthrowing the Ninevites.
• 16:25 Why do we want to whitewash certain biblical figures?
• 18:08 We want simple - the good guys and the bad guys, but we're all good guys and bad guys.
• 25:11 Elijah and Jonah - similarities and differences.
• 27:26 Rebellion and religion are almost identical - they both lead to the same thing - self-reliance.
• 29:06 Jesus is the better Jonah.