As I considered the church of Ephesus, I went back to 1 Corinthians 13:1. Let’s take it to the marketplace. It says that if what we say does not come from a heart of love, we just sound like a loud noise. Verse 2 says that though we have spiritual gifts, great knowledge, and all faith, unless it is born from love we are nothing. 

Verse 3 says, “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” I love Franklin Graham’s remark about his dad. He said that he was the same at home as he was in the pulpit.

Paul was a great example for us. 1 Corinthians 9:22 says, “To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”