What Ephesus Teaches Us About Loving Christ Again

What Ephesus Teaches Us About Loving Christ Again

I've often wondered what it would have been like to visit the church in Ephesus.

From the outside, it looked like a strong church. They worked hard. They defended the truth. They refused to tolerate false teaching. They endured hardship and remained faithful when many others might have given up.

Most Christians would probably have admired them.

Yet when Jesus looked at the church, He saw something others could not see.

In Revelation 2:4, He said:

"But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first."

Those words have always challenged me.

The believers in Ephesus had not abandoned Christianity. They had not rejected the Bible. They had not stopped serving.