- This week, Peter and Leslie discuss the church at Ephesus and Jesus’s call for this parish to repent. They had left their “First Love” and because they did their lamp stand or light was about to be removed. If the first love is lost, we must return to that place of our initial love for Jesus Christ that we saw pictured in the first church built after Pentecost in Jerusalem. We can also see this love spoken of by Saint Paul in First Corinthians 13. Using that portion of scripture as a mirror will help us like a compass does, as it points us in the right direction. Finally, we see our Lord Jesus call Saint Peter back to the first love in John 21 in his post-resurrection appearance. The honesty of Saint Peter, saying that in his own person, he is incapable of walking in his first love, the agape. We learned that it’s only through the transformation that comes from following Jesus that we can walk in this love.
