by Rich Christianson Editor’s note: The following is an actual letter written by GES Associate Director Rich Christianson in May of 1986, just weeks before the birth of GES. The letter shows Rich’s longstanding commitment to the issues for which GES stands. It has been slightly condensed and edited for publication. I appreciate your continuing

Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted and edited from Dr. Farstad’s article, “We Believe in the Church,” which appeared in the Spring 1992 issue of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society. We of the Grace Evangelical Society believe in the Church. GES is what is popularly known as a “parachurch” organization, that is, we

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy God is able, according to Jude, to keep every believer from stumbling, that is, from experiencing major moral or doctrinal failure. A key interpretive question here is whether Jude was