L. Gregory Jones - "You've Got to Be Kidding" (January 23, 2000)

Sermon start time: 01:13. Sermon end time: 19:46.

Jonah's anger at the repentance and reconciliation offered his enemies consumed him; it was a feast prepared of his own body. But God offers us a different feast, one prepared of the body of Jesus. In order to prepare ourselves for this feast in the Kingdom of God, however, we must change the habits of ourlives, casting aside hatred and bitterness and clothing ourselves in love through repentance. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

Key quotation: “Repentance is a gift that comes from God. Because, when we see the real possibilities of life, we discover that we want to cast off the hatred, the bitterness, the anger, the sin that divides us, that separates us from God and from one another.”