A church in the dangerous position of thinking they are fine when God is not pleased.

Despite the fact that the church has little power in the culture it worships the God of all power.

In Sardis the church has a reputation that doesn’t match up with reality. The health of a church is not in its appearance but its spiritual life.

A church inside a culture of pagan worship is tempted to compromise on both their beliefs and behaviour.

In a city of great affluence, the church suffers poverty and persecution. Jesus calls believers to even still be faithful even unto death.

A church that is doing well with identifying false teaching but is rebuked for forgetting to love.