Via Church

During Paul’s third missionary journey (Acts 19:23-34), he stayed in Ephesus for three years preaching the Gospel. The spiritual forces that were at work in Ephesus had been deceiving the people of the city for generations. When the Gospel came, the truth of God shed light on this deception and it caused friction to exist between the society in Ephesus and the church in Ephesus. You can imagine the importance of this letter to the church in Ephesus. There were certain things that the church in that region of the world needed to understand with crystal clarity. They needed to know the strength and awesome power of God, who is not a mute idol, but rather the one true God, worthy of their worship. In the face of a society bend against them, they needed to be prepared to be God’s people, for the sake of their city...