Nathan W. Bingham

There's one church under God.

We're united here, the church militant on earth.

We're united with the church triumphant in heaven.

One church.

What they believed, we are to believe.

The core.

We're to contend for that.

It doesn't matter how many churches in our generation buy into this new thing that either adds or subtracts from the faith.

It doesn't matter how many there are and we identify.

We can identify with them.

No, we belong to the church through the ages.

We are seeking to maintain the unity of the church, not just in our day, but through the ages.

And so when we contend for the faith, we're actually contending for unity.

The second objection is that contending doesn't sound loving.

Aren't we supposed to be lovers as Christians, not fighters?

Well, yeah, you're supposed to be lovers.

And sometimes being a lover requires that you are a fighter.

When we lose the faith, if we lose this truth,

We lose the one hope for mankind trapped in darkness.

It is the most unloving thing we can do to lose the faith.