Jonah’s preaching to Nineveh and the city’s repentance are both recorded in one chapter, but three chapters are devoted to revealing how God worked to form Jonah’s soul. That may be suggestive. Suggestive of what? Perhaps this: in God’s thinking about what matters most and in His way of carrying out His thought, ministry (as we commonly understand the term to mean doing something for someone else) is vital. But ministry loses life-changing power when it flows from a soul not committed to ongoing