{"id":9743,"date":"2022-08-01T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/?p=9743"},"modified":"2022-08-15T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:38:19","slug":"youve-got-mail-ephesus-the-church-that-lost-its-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/2022\/08\/01\/youve-got-mail-ephesus-the-church-that-lost-its-love\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Got Mail ~ Ephesus &#8211; The Church that Lost its Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the letters to the seven churches in Revelation there is a pattern that is followed.\u00a0 The church receives a reprimand on an issue they are found deficient but then a correction is challenged and a promise given.\u00a0 It is in this correction we see the opportunity to apply the wisdom shared with these churches to make our church be what God has called his churches to be.<\/p>\n<p>The first letter in Revelation is written to the city of Ephesus.\u00a0 This is a city that Paul ministered to heavily throughout his years of ministry. We can read about his interactions with this town in Acts and Timothy along with his letter directly to the Ephesians.\u00a0 In the letter in Revelation, the church in Ephesus is reprimanded for their doctrinal purity at the expense of showing love.\u00a0 Join Pastor Doug as he shares the wisdom of this letter and how it can affect our ministries to God&#8217;s people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the letters to the seven churches in Revelation there is a pattern that is followed.\u00a0 The church receives a reprimand on an issue they are found deficient but then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sermons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paper-g0b26ed837_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1439&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9J9R0-2x9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9748,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions\/9748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}