Ephesus: Preserving the Ministry through Remembering, Repenting, and Returning

After Paul exhorts the church and its elders at Ephesus to stand guard and protect itself from false doctrine and false teachers (Acts 20:20-32), Jesus Christ himself writes to the Ephesian church (via the inspiration of the apostle John in Revelation 2) some 40 years later to both commend and to warn. While commending their adherence to true doctrine and teaching, the Lord warns that without love, He will remove the Ephesian church as an instrument of His grace. Pastor David encourages us to remember the primacy of God's commandment to love our neighbor, the necessity to confess and repent of sin which has been committed against our fellow believers, and return to be the witnesses of the love of the gospel.