individuals, or even as a church, are encouraged to go back to some earlier stage of our coming to God and renew that first feeling of affection, much like a married couple reminisces about their first date or early days of courting. This is possible, but given the nature of the history of the Christian mission at Ephesus, there is a need to see a larger social emphasis in the text. Actually, every church or Christian believer could examine his or her motives for evangelism as from the first. What