Jonah | Life on the Run | Jonah 1:1-3 | Week 1

Over the next six weeks, we're going to have the chance to journey with Jonah, to allow Jonah to be our guide through the Lenten season. Our guide to the cross. Our guide to the resurrection. Metaphorically speaking, we're going to take Jonah's hand and we're going to go for a little bit of a walk. My guess is, even if you're not a follower of Jesus and you're here today, even if you don't know much about the Bible, you've heard about Jonah. Turns out the story about a person getting eaten by a fish and living for three days in its belly is ubiquitous. News about that travels. My guess is you have an opinion about the book of Jonah.

I can remember being a college pastor and walking onto a college campus in southern California, and having someone come up to me. We started a conversation about life, and faith, and Jesus, and it was almost like they hit pause and said, "You don't really believe in the whole Jonah story, do you?" How do you answer somebody who has no interest in faith, has no background in faith or maybe stepped away from faith? What do you say? Here's what I said, "Well, I believe that Jesus of Nazareth died, and was buried in the earth for three days, and walked out of the grave, so I guess believing that somebody survived in the belly of a fish isn't any harder than that." My goal was let me get to Jesus as quick as I can...