church, where are you?

Today a week ago I started to prepare the lesson for tonight's bible class. We started a new series about the letters to the churches in the first chapters of Revelation and today was the first one, the letter to Ephesus.
During the last week by preparing it, I realized it is a really serious, I mean a deadly serious topic.
Jesus tells them, I know, you are good guys. You are patient (greek: cheerful endurance, constancy) and you work a lot for me. But you don't love me anymore as it was in the beginning (greek: when I was the number one in your life and everything you did was to please me and not the world). Repent (greek: think differently or afterwards, i.e. reconsider [morally, feel compunction]) and do the first works (= let me be your number one again with your WHOLE heart and your whole being) otherwise I will move your candlestick from its place - sweep you off - execpt thou repent. Note: the "repent" is mentioned twice. This message is not only for the churches, it is valid for each of us personally today.

When I was studying and praying about that whole stuff last week I recieved a "commercial" from tangle and there I found the following video. This guy puts it better than I can say it.



I tried to present the topic tonight but it seems anybody understood how serious this is. They know the right answers but I am missing the action.

One thing that cheered me up a little bit when I came home was an email from Sheritha. I had sent her the link to this above video without a comment. And she immediately draw the connection to the churches in Revelation. At least somebody grabbed the message and, what I like even more, the holy spirit has revealed it to her.