Eugene Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant:
Jonah entered the religious Ninevah and became a pastor in this place – not to improve their religion and not to serve their religious needs but to subvert their religion, insinuate doubts into its validity, and then help them to deal in faith with a living God…He didn’t accuse them of being evil. He didn’t denounce their sin and wickedness. He call into question their future.
Emphasis Peterson’s.
