Reintroducing Jonah | Jonah the Patriot

The story of Jonah is not really about a man who spends some time in the belly of a fish. Instead, it’s the story about a man who runs from God. In this message, we finally get into why Jonah ran from God—and it might not be the reason you expect.

Jonah, from what we can discern of him, was an intensely patriotic Jew, one who put his love of country ahead of God. This is the gap that existed between Jonah and God, and it remained even after he decided to follow through on what God asked him to do in the first place. In this message, Pastor Joel unpacks what we can learn from Jonah’s own struggles with identity and unhealthy love of country, and the deeper insight we can find from any gaps between God and ourselves we might have.