Not on Board: Jonah's Plunge Into God's Plan - Softcover

Richardson, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735234567 ISBN 13: 9781735234564

Publisher: Bottomline Media, 2024

Synopsis

A little book with a big message

Most Christians know the biblical story of "Jonah and the whale," but how many of us have thought deeply about its life-changing message and global implications? There's a lot more going on under the surface than most people realize.

What is God's overarching plan for the world? How does He view people who don't know Him? What is our role, and how can we expect people to respond? How will this journey impact us as messengers? Jonah's themes reverberate through the rest of Scripture: God is sovereign, just and loving. He calls His people to align our hearts with His and to join Him in His compassionate pursuit of a world under condemnation.

God has a beautiful, unnerving, exhilarating, and sometimes frustrating way of surprising us with His superior (but often uncomfortable) plan. There's no better way to become like Jesus than to join Him on His mission of mercy to a lost world, whether that's in our own neighborhoods or at the very ends of the earth. We may wonder at times if some people can-or even should-be saved. In the book of Jonah, God thunders a resounding "Yes!"

About this title

About the Author

Steve Richardson has served as president of Pioneers-USA since 1999. Pioneers mobilizes and supports 3,200 missionaries and marketplace professionals who impact 500 unreached people groups in 95 countries. Steve was raised in Indonesia, where his parents planted churches in a jungle tribe. He witnessed the impact of the gospel on their war-like society, a story documented in his father's missionary classic, Peace Child. Steve and his wife, Arlene, also spent eleven years planting churches among an unreached people group in Southeast Asia. The Richardsons now live in Orlando, Florida, and have been blessed with four daughters and a growing crowd of grandchildren.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bottomline Media
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1735234567
• ISBN 13: 9781735234564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104