If you would rather sit at home watching TV than tell the people of Nineveh to "Stop being nasty - or else!", you need to read Jonah's story. It has everything: boats, storms, worms and a really cool whale that eats people. This Story is based on: Jonah 1:1-4. Related Bible passages include: Matthew 28:19-20, John 3:16, Acts 10:34-43, Romans 5:6-11, Ephesians 3:18-19, Psalm 18:4-6, Psalm 42:7. The main theme is God's love. Other themes include compassion, grace, judgement, obedience, calling, repentance, love others, enemies and whales. When Jesus wanted to change lives he told stories. That's what the Lost Sheep series is all about. At the centre of the stories is Jesus. Some stories are about him, some are by him, but all of them point to him. The series takes the spirituality of children seriously but also believe the gospel is fun.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Malcolm Down Publishing Ltd .
Before devoting all his time to Lost Sheep, Andrew McDonough was pastor of the WestCare community in Adelaide, South Australia. He regularly tells stories and conducts workshops in schools and churches.
This book contains the following story:
Jonah and the Whale
Long ago there lived a man called Jonah. One day God spoke to him: 'Jonah you must go to Nineveh. The people there do bad things. You must tell them to mend their ways.' But Jonah didnt want to go to Nineveh, so he ran away and boarded a ship. God then raised a great storm as a sign of his anger with Jonah. The sailors, realizing that Jonah's disobedience had caused the storm, threw him overboard in an attempt to save their ship. God sent a whale to swallow Jonah and he lived for three days and three nights in the belly of the whale. Jonah was so grateful to God that he had saved him that he promised to do whatever God asked. God heard him and told the fish to spit Jonah out onto dry land. Then Jonah went to Ninenveh and preached to the people Gods message. The people believed the message and changed their ways and Nineveh was saved.
