What is an Ephesus church? I’m glad you asked.
In the latter half of the first century, a Christian community was founded in Ephesus. The apostle Paul lived in Ephesus for three years, working with the congregation and organizing missionary activity. It is also where the Apostle Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians. A letter that highlighted the church’s grounding in the essential truth and fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and his divine lordship over all peoples. Perhaps it was the people of Ephesus who inspired him to write such words to the Corinthians, because the church of Ephesus appeared to be a well-guided congregation. Later, Timothy pastored the church at Ephesus, and then they had the great apostle John.
It sounds to me like the church in Ephesus had a firm grounding in the Apostles and early disciples of Christ. But they also had a congregation that was ready and willing to do the work entrusted to them by Christ’s commands. We know this because Christ references the church in Ephesus in Revelation Chapter 2, stating about them, “I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot bear with those who are evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake, you also have not grown weary.”
