Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.
Jude 3
The brief book of Jude contains a lot of parallels with the epistles of Peter. Like then, the greatest challenges come from within the “church world” – primarily from those who present a gospel that is really no gospel at all. And some continue to question the idea of literal truth.
In the verse above from the short letter from Jude, the faith the writer urges us to contend for, is a faith that is based on a set of truths we believe about the One we trust.
There are some areas of faith where we may have differences, but there is a truth worth contending for in the area of ideas. Even though we may not fully grasp the reality today, it is the Truth worth dying for, and many have done so on other continents (recently).
“Our challenge today is not to lament, protest, or simply talk about the crisis of truth in one of a hundred ways. Rather, it is to do something about it by becoming people of truth and learning to live free.”
Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
Guinness recognizes “if everything is endlessly open to question and change, then everything is permitted, nothing is forbidden, and literally nothing is unthinkable.” And so are we content to do nothing or contend for the truth?
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