St. Paul Lutheran Church

When God calls his prophet Jonah to leave the comfort of his home and go to the city of Nineveh with words of judgement, the prophet of God without saying a word to God rebels and runs in the opposite direction. The book of Jonah begins with the audience wondering why this prophet of God is so reluctant to deliver God's word and when we finally find out the reason is quite shocking and sad, but yet if we are honest with ourselves not entirely shocking because we can so often have the same attitude toward the mercy of God.