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The first letter is to the church in Ephesus. Ephesus was a city on the western coast of Asia Minor, near the mouth of the Cayster River. The city was famous for its temple of Diana (or Artemis, Acts 19:27), and pilgrims came to Ephesus from all over the Mediterranean world to worship the goddess.
The church at Ephesus was featured in the Book of Acts, in the Book of Revelation, and in one of Paul’s letters directed specifically to the Ephesian church. Why was this ancient church important to the growing Christian church at that time, and why is it important to us today?
Jesus’ letter to the church at Ephesus contains Jesus’ famous rebuke: “You have left your first love” (Revelation 2:4). The believers at Ephesus, struggling beneath the weight of a godless and immoral culture, had maintained the letter of the law but had lost the Spirit of the law (see Romans 2:29).
A Brief Biblical History of the Church In Ephesus. The New Testament traces the full history of the church in Ephesus from it’s founding in Acts 18 to facing the rebuke of Jesus in Revelation 2:1-7. The word Ephesus means desirable, and in many ways it was certainly a desirable place to live.
Ephesus, taught by two apostles, rejected all accommodation with paganism and those who advocated the softer policy. The question remaining is this: Was John too rigid, too extreme? Need the church, for instance, for the sake of a pinch of incense, have been exposed to the bitterness of persecution? History gives the answer.
The church of Ephesus was the setting for several New Testament events: God worked through Paul to even the sick and cast out demons (Acts 19:11). Many new believers who practiced the magic arts...
Ephesus, in the Roman province of Asia, is 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Smyrna. Located opposite the island of Samos, it is the closest of Revelation's seven churches to the island of Patmos where the apostle John wrote the book of Revelation.
The Letter to the Church in Ephesus. Ephesus was the site of the first congregation that Jesus addressed in the Apocalypse, and the New Testament tells us more about the history of this church than about any of the others.
Ephesus, the loveless church, was located at a major harbor on the Aegean Sea and housed one of the seven wonders of the ancient world (a temple to Artemis). Founded by Paul, this was the most prominent church in Asia Minor.
These letters (also known as “epistles”) contain both general Christian teaching and specific instructions for the congregation to which they were addressed. As part of our Letters to the Church series, we’re taking a brief look at each epistle in the New Testament.