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Podcast: Seeking the Gospel Truth
Episode: 5.20: Do You Love the church more than Jesus?
Description: Ephesus is the first church to be called out in Jesus’ letters to the  7 churches in the Book of Revelation. Why Ephesus? It was the main  church in the area — what is now Turkey — and the Apostle John was the  bishop or overseer of the 7 churches and based in Ephesus. Besides  Ephesus, the 7 churches included Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis,  Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Sadly, because of the Islamic takeover of  that area in the 7th and 8th centuries, all that’s left are ruins.  Ephesus is the only one of the 7 churches that got a letter from the  Apostle Paul.
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