Embassy pastoral assistant preaches this week from Jonah 3:1-10. The big idea this week is that because the word of God transforms us, we repent, and God relents. After Jonah proclaims God’s prophecy, the Ninevites repent and experience the powerful mercy of God. Believers today experience God’s powerful mercy through the person and works of Jesus Christ.

Discussion Questions:

1. How have you seen God use His word in your life or someone else’s to repent?
2. Do you think any of the chapters of our life can change God’s plan for you? What is the importance of this question?
3. How do we know God’s plans for us?
4. What are aspects in your life that contribute to not making disciples of all nations?
5. What does it mean to make disciples of all nations?
6. Who are the people in your life God is calling you to share the gospel with?
7. How have you seen God demonstrate relentless pursuit of your or someone else’s life?
8. How many times or have there been times when you are doing the bare minimum to follow what God is asking you to do?
9. How have you seen God use the bare minimum in your life to follow what He is asking you to do?
10. How have you seen God display His power through mercy in your life and in others? How have you seen God’s power in mercy through other passages in the word?
11. What does it look like to have a life of regular repentance of sins?
12. What does it look like for us to repent of our sin together as a church?
13. What is repentance? What does God’s word say repentance is?
14. What is the order of how we are reconciled to God? What are examples in your life?
15. How have you seen Jesus transform your life and other’s lives?
16. What do you think contributes to us minimizing our sins? How does this impact our relationship with God?