Chapter 1: "Hearing the Spirit: The Vison of Christ"

Chapter 2:

Ephesus "Ignite Your First Love"

Smyrna "Endure with Hope"

Pergamum "Stand Firm Against Compromise"

Thyatira "Hold Fast to Truth"

Sardis "Wake Up and Strengthen What Remains"

Scripture Text: Revelation 3:1-6 (NIV)

1 “To the angel of the church in Sardis write:

These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 

2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. 

3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.

4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 

5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. 

6 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

1: Confront the Complacency that Kills (vv. 1-2)

2: Celebrate the Faithful Few (v. 4)

3: Cling to the Promise of Eternal Life (vv. 5-6)