Ephesus | Dear Church | Aaron Wright
from Upstate Community Church Hosted by Upstate Community Church
Jesus sees everything you're doing — the labor, the perseverance, the doctrinal discernment, the faithfulness week after week. He commends it all. But in his letter to the church of Ephesus, he says something that cuts through every good deed and busy schedule: "I have this against you — you have left your first love." In this message from the Dear Church series, Aaron walks through Revelation 2:1–7, Jesus' 30-year report card to one of the most prominent churches in the ancient world. Ephesus was doing almost everything right. But underneath all the activity, something had quietly slipped — the raw, unfiltered, first-love pursuit of Jesus that used to change everything around them. This episode asks one of the most personally convicting questions a believer can sit with: what did your faith look like when you first got saved? What happened to the hours in prayer, the open Bible, the hunger for the presence of God? How did a burning devotion to Christ get quietly replaced by routine, program, and cultural Christianity? Drawing from Ephesians 3, 1 Corinthians 13, and the story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10, this message is a pastoral call — not a condemnation — to remember how far you've fallen, repent, and return to the one thing that makes everything else matter. Upstate Community Church | Boiling Springs, SCupstatecommunity.com #DearChurch #Revelation #FirstLove #ChristianPodcast #BibleTeaching #Repentance #SpiritualIntimacy #Wesleyan
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