Why didn’t Jude just tell his first readers to leave and find a different church? The leaders they were under were clearly some kind of spiritual horror show: arrogant, verbally abusive, exploitative, immoral, selfish, without fruit or benefit to the church, and fully deserving of all God’s wrath.
As we will see in future articles, Jude does give his readers something of a survival strategy to help them thrive even under such a toxic leadership culture.
But why try to take on this challenge? Wouldn’t it be better to separate from this church and join a different one? Or if that wasn’t possible, better surely to stay at home and worship as a family.
When their teaching is healthy, but their behaviour isn't
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