The Epistle of Jude: A Clarion Call to Contend for the Faith

The Epistle of Jude: A Clarion Call to Contend for the Faith ~ by Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D.  “It is difficult in our generation to understand this idea of heresy or heretics because, quite frankly, the church at large has become rather heretical.”                                                                                             —Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D. The Epistle of Jude is often overlooked because it is one of the shortest books in the Bible.  Yet its author, a half-brother of Jesus Christ, manages in a mere 25 verses to encapsulate one of the major themes of the entire Bible: the danger of apostasy.  Jude sounds a warning against falling away from God, whether through unbelief, pride, or sheer complacency.  In Jude’s day, the immediate danger was from false teachers who had crept into the church bringing heretical doctrine for their own personal gain at the expense of other people’s souls.  This same danger exists in every generation of the church, and it certainly e