Defender of the faith. A two-part walk through Jude's short, fierce letter, and the call to contend for what we have been given.
Jude meant to write about the salvation we share. Instead he picked up his pen to warn the church about teachers who had slipped in among them, turning grace into an excuse to do whatever they pleased. His letter is short, only twenty-five verses, and it does not flinch.
Over two weeks at New Hope in Clovis, Pastor Mark Addis walked us through Jude's call to contend for the faith, how to recognize what is false, how to stay anchored in the love of God, and how to reach for those who are slipping. Jude ends in worship, with the great promise that God is able to keep us from falling.
May 2 to May 9, 2021 · 2 Weeks
“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
Jude 1-16
A hidden reef sits just under the surface where nothing warns you it is there, and it opens the hull of a ship that sails straight over it. That is Jude's picture of a false teacher, and Pastor Mark Addis spends a morning on why the danger is always the one already inside.
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Jude 17-25
Jude uses a word for contend that Greek writers used for athletes straining against each other. Pastor Mark Addis finishes the shortest letter in the New Testament, and the closing instructions read like a checklist: build, pray, keep, show mercy.
Watch the messageJude was one of several series we walked through in 2021. Browse the rest of the year, or join us in person on a Sunday.
