Jude

I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people… But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.

Jude 1:3–4, 20–21

Ways to contend for our family:

1. Connect by Choice, not by Chance
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John 21

• Fight For each other, not With each other

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Ephesians 6:12

• Fight the problem, not the person.
• Change the way we respond to each other
• Remember you’re on the same team
  • Mark 3:25 – If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Division is the enemy’s favorite strategy.

2. Abide in the Holy Spirit

But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life! Go easy on those who hesitate in the faith. Go after those who take the wrong way. Be tender with sinners, but not soft on sin. The sin itself stinks to high heaven.

Jude 20-23

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control

Galatians 5:22

• Love
• Joy
• peace
• Patience
• Kindness
• Goodness
• Faithfulness
• Gentleness
• Self-control
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Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

John 15:4-5

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

John 1:12–13