In an online article at Inc.com, Ryan Jenkins, author, speaker and generations expert writes, “Entitlement is perhaps the top word associated with the Millennial generation. In fact, 71 percent of American adults think of Millennials as “selfish,” and 65 percent think Millennials are ‘entitled.’” The Millennial generation – those born between 1980 and 1995, have been characterized as self-absorbed, narcissistic, overconfident, materialistic and lazy. (My apologies to any of you Millennials out there, but that’s what the research says!). There’s no shortage of information to support the assertions; studies have been completed, data has been analyzed, and reports have been published. When all is said and done, it seems to me that what it boils down to is a lot of unrealistic, unmet expectations and an inability to know what to do with them. But are these traits really a millennial thing or could it be that this is a human thing?

For the past few weeks, we’ve been working our way through the Old Testament story of Jonah in a series we’ve called Life Interrupted: Reluctant Prophet, Relentless God. And if the adjectives are accurate, in a lot of ways, Jonah seems like a misplaced millennial, filled with and driven by unmet and unrealistic expectations. Jonah, it seems, is a lot like us, in a lot of ways; regardless of generation.

Join us as we wrap up Jonah’s story this Sunday. Spoiler alert: there is no tidy ending. In fact, we’re left with loose ends and a couple of unanswered questions. But maybe that’s the point... to wrestle with our own unmet expectations – our inner millennial – and figure out what to do with them.