Contend: Standing Boldly for Biblical Truth While Winning the War Within — Philip Anthony Mitchell
- No. 1 New York Times bestseller, over 100,000 copies sold
- 224 pages, hardcover, foreword by Matt Chandler
- A chapter by chapter walk through the Letter of Jude
- Every chapter ends with a Takeaway Truth and a Contender's Charge
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Inside the book
Twenty five verses of Jude, worked through in 224 pages.
Jude runs to twenty five verses and sits on a single page of most Bibles. Mitchell takes those verses in order and spends the whole book on them, which is why it reads as a walk through rather than a survey.
Each chapter closes with a Takeaway Truth tied back to Scripture. It is the one line you are meant to leave the chapter holding, and it is what makes the book straightforward to run in a group where people read at different speeds.
After the Takeaway Truth comes the Contender's Charge, which is the part you go and do. That is the structural reason this works as a course rather than an essay, and why it holds up on your own as readily as it does in a group.
Philip Anthony Mitchell founded 2819 Church in Atlanta and is its lead pastor. Contend is his first book, and it opened at No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How To and Miscellaneous list.
Not A Book For Spectators.
Not A Book For Spectators.
It opened at number one.
Contend debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How To and Miscellaneous list and passed 100,000 copies across print, ebook and audio inside its first ten days. For a debut from a first time author, that does not happen often.
One letter. Twenty five verses.
Jude sits on a single page and is easy to read past. It was written to a church that had gone quiet while false teaching settled in around it, and it carries one instruction. Mitchell spends 224 pages on it, taking the verses in order.
Built to be worked, not just read.
Every chapter closes with a Takeaway Truth tied back to Scripture, then a Contender's Charge, which is the part you go and do. That structure is why it holds up as a group study as readily as it does on your own.
Two fronts, not one.
The culture is the obvious fight. The book spends just as long on the other one: sin, doubt, insecurity and unforgiveness, the things that take a contender out long before any argument is had. Standing boldly and winning the war within are the same project.
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