Scripture Study: Jonah

Mainly about the part after the part everyone reads

I have a peculiar affection for the book of Jonah. I think the reason is that it was one of the earliest topics I prepared a lesson about when I was called as a gospel doctrine teacher back in graduate school. I was scared to death and so I really threw myself into it, reading as much as I could and then writing out everything I wanted to say. I don’t remember how it went, but it was probably fine. It’s funny—there’s no question that I’m a better teacher now than I was then, but if I were to be a gospel doctrine teacher again, I probably wouldn’t prepare as much, and so I’m not sure that the lessons and discussions would improve over the ones I did years ago.

Anyway, I was thinking about Jonah, and was thinking about that lesson, and I thought I’d go back to it for this essay. I couldn’t find it for a long time, but thanks to the magic of cloud storage and saved passwords, I was able to dig up my outline. So today I’ll be sharing some thoughts from that lesson.