About this episode

Andy reflects on Jude 1:1-4, discussing the importance of contending for the faith against wandering teachers who distort grace.

In this Friday reflection on Jude 1–4, Jude's urgent appeal to contend for the faith is set against a backdrop we've seen all week: the problem of wandering teachers. Where Third John commended a church for receiving the right teachers, Jude warns a church that has received the wrong ones — intruders who have twisted grace into a license for anything-goes living and in doing so have denied the lordship of Jesus Christ. Along the way, a brief but helpful explanation of the biblical canon clari...

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Host: Andy Stoddard

Topics covered

• faith
• wandering teachers
• grace
• Christianity
• biblical canon

Keywords

• Jude
• faith
• wandering teachers
• grace
• Christianity
• biblical canon

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Books & works: Jude

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