Love This Book - Part 2Sample

Week 18: As we’ve read from Genesis through 2 Kings, the story has focused on rebelling and God’s people turning away and toward other things. In the prophets, society’s betrayal of God shows itself through social injustice issues including the oppression of the poor, the abandonment of the needy, and human misconception of ownership. In the story of Jonah, this progresses to ethnocentrism evident in his failure to bless the nations and act on what was once a call from Abraham for the people of God. These issues have not fallen out of our common discourse today, and while we look back on familiar failures of Christians, we can use these readings to move forward.