DESTINATION
DESTINATION
The address is "to those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ” (1). This is very general and might apply to any Christians. But the writing gives evidence that the author had a specific audience in mind. He calls his readers "dear friends” and addresses them as "you” (3). To speak of false teachers as those who "secretly slipped in among you” looks like a reference to a specific situation rather than a description of the church as a whole. But neither what the writer says about the recipients nor what he says about the false teachers enables us to pin him down with any precision. We may guess, but in the end we are forced to say that we do not know who the original recipients were.