Contending for the Faith in a Confused Culture

Jun 1, 2021 by

by Justin Dillehay, The Gospel Coalition:

We live in a time of great theological confusion. According to Ligonier Ministry’s latest State of Theology survey, 30 percent of professing evangelicals reject the deity of Christ, 46 percent believe people are good by nature, and 22 percent think gender identity is “a matter of personal choice.”

Perhaps if surveys could’ve been taken in centuries past, we would find it has always been so. But our culture has definitely injected a strong dose of relativism and individualism that makes it hard for people to recognize any authority above themselves. As a result, people prefer a faith that resists clear definition and a Christianity empty of specific content.

All of which makes it a good time to reflect on Jude 3, in which Jesus’s half-brother urges us to “contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” I want to look at this verse from three angles, which will clarify what it means to contend for the faith in an age of moral and theological confusion.

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