The Church at Ephesus: Big Heads, Shriveled Hearts
Jesus’ first letter in Revelation 2 is to the church in Ephesus. Through testing and trial they have maintained sound doctrine, but in the midst of it they abandoned their love of Christ. While their heads had grown large, their hearts had shriveled. Are we prone to the same shriveled hearts? Are we more concerned with knowledge for knowledge’s sake than we are for knowledge that reveals Christ and gives depth to our love? How can we remember the love we had when we first met Christ?
Ephesus
In the book of Revelation, Jesus writes seven letters to seven real churches, the first to the church in Ephesus. They seemed to be doing everything right: they were against the people that Jesus was against and knew all the truths that they thought they should know. But they had not love. They seemed to be doing all of the right things, but had abandoned the love of Christ that they had had from the beginning! We are called to more than being right in our theology and more than doing the right things. We’re called to love Jesus as of first importance.