FIRST LOVE - MARK PETTUS

Main message: The sermon warns the church not to lose its “first love” for Jesus. Using Revelation 2:1–5, it calls believers to remember their original devotion, repent of drift, and return to the practices that once fueled their love and faith.

Key points:

• Jesus praised the church in Ephesus for hard work, perseverance, doctrinal discernment, and endurance.
• Despite all their good works, Jesus said they had forsaken the love they had at first.
• The message treats this as a warning and invitation for the church today to guard against becoming spiritually familiar or routine.
• The remedy is to remember what life with Jesus was like at the start, repent, and do the first works again.
• The sermon emphasizes restoring time with God, awe, faith, innocence, and passion.
• It closes as an invitation to worship, prayer, communion, and renewed commitment to Jesus.

Scriptures mentioned: Revelation 2:1-5, Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 6:24, Jeremiah 2:2