Contending with Discernment
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When the truth is under threat, Christians are commanded to contend for the faith. Yet this does not give us license to be quarrelsome. Today, Jason Helopoulos considers how we can stand for the truth virtuously.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Rev. Jason Helopoulos is senior pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, MI.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | We contend without being cynical. We don't fall into the trap of thinking the worst of everyone out there. |
| 0:08.0 | Why? Because Jesus is Lord and Master. He reigns. Someone that is on this path of destruction with their teaching or what they've embraced. |
| 0:18.4 | In a moment can go from there to end Christ for eternity. |
| 0:24.3 | No one is beyond His grace. |
| 0:31.7 | It can be easy to become discouraged, to become cynical. As you grow in your understanding of God's Word, you may |
| 0:39.4 | see error all around, whether intentional error or out of ignorance. You hear someone in your Bible |
| 0:45.7 | study pray, and you realize they've fallen into a Christological or Trinitarian heresy. In that |
| 0:52.6 | moment, how do you contend for the faith? |
| 0:55.7 | This is the Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind, |
| 0:59.0 | and today you'll hear a final message |
| 1:01.0 | from Jason Holopoulos' series, |
| 1:03.3 | Contending for the Faith, The Book of Jude. |
| 1:07.1 | If you'd like to study Jude more, |
| 1:09.3 | you can request the entire series and the study guide |
| 1:12.6 | when you give a donation at Renewing Your Mind.org in support of renewing your mind. |
| 1:17.6 | We'll also send you a Renewing Your Mind notebook or to express our thanks for your support of this program. |
| 1:23.6 | Well, here's Reverend Helopoulos with five warnings for when you contend for the faith. |
| 1:31.9 | In this lesson, what I want to do is just take a step back a little bit from the text for |
| 1:37.6 | this lesson and think through together contending. I think often when we hear that, we immediately have objections, and there |
| 1:47.9 | should be some concerns, or at least I have some concerns. I think you have concerns as we |
| 1:53.1 | watch different people, and maybe even as we see in our own hearts, as we're seeking to contend |
| 1:57.7 | for the faith. So I want to think through a couple of those objections here in this lesson, |
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