"contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints."
Jude 3

There is an ever increasing surge of pluralism, relativism, and post-modernism in our Western, American culture today. People argue that there is no such thing as truth. Or that, if it does exist, it's not absolute. The idea of truth is relativistic. What is true for me might not be true for you and vice versa. There is no meta-truth. The Bible is not viewed as a meta-narrative. Jesus is not "the Way, the Truth, or the Life." He is seen as being merely a way, a truth, and a life.

Jude, however, seemed to think differently. Jude identifies himself as the brother of James and a "servant of Jesus Christ." This is a humble statement. Why? Because he is also the half-brother of Jesus. Jude was Christ's half-brother who didn't believe in him until after the resurrection. Jude, after his post-resurrection epiphany, realized that there was only one faith, that there was none other than Christ, and that that very faith, the one that his half-brother taught, died for, and rose for, had been "delivered to the saints." And it indeed has.

The Bible is our source of truth. Christ is "the Word" (John 1). If we don't contend for biblical truth, biblical doctrine, and biblical theology, we don't contend for Christ. If we lose the Bible, we lose Christ. Jesus said that the prophets and law (the Old Testament) spoke of him and that he had come to "fulfill" the law and prophets. The Gospels are about Christ's life, Acts is about people coming to know Christ in the early church, the epistles are about how churches should properly worship Christ, and Revelations is about Christ's triumphant return and reign. The whole Bible is about JESUS. So, we must know the Bible, we must know the faith, and we must know Christ in it all. After having come to know these things, we must do all we can to contend and fight the good fight of faith.

Nothing less than eternity is at stake.