1 June 2025 Sermon Notes
June 1, 2025

SERIES: THE LION, THE LAMB, AND THE BRIDE
TITLE: THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS
SCRIPTURE: REVELATION 2:1-7

  1. How would you describe a “successful” church?

  2. The greatest attack facing the Ephesian church was


  3. “It seems that in their zeal to oppose false teaching, they had forgotten all about love and the foundation of their faith… They had protected the gospel but had failed to protect

    . They had lost sight of the core message of Christ.” (Tim Archer)

  4. They had turned a desire to

    God out of into a requirement to for God out of

  5. When we

    for God, it is because we feel like there is something we have to

  6. When we

    God, it is a that God has us

  7. They were more in love with

    they knew than they knew

  8. A

    is one that falls deeper and deeper into the love of Christ and serves in a way that shares that love to anyone and everyone around