Topical Studies
What the Bible says about Drifting Apart
(From Forerunner Commentary)
We have all heard of couples, supposedly in love, who have drifted apart. It is not that either one or the other intended to drift away, but it happened because maybe one or both were not paying attention to the relationship. Something else had grabbed the interest of one or the other, or both, so they began to drift apart.
John W. Ritenbaugh
How to Know We Love ChristRelated Topics: Drifting Apart | Drifting Spiritually | Estrangement | Estrangement from God | First Love | First Love, Losing | Losing First Love | Losing Heart | Love for Christ | Love for God | Love of God | Relationship with Christ | Relationship with God | Relationships | Relationships With People | Relationships, Husband-Wife
The author provides a penetrating insight into the attitude of the Ephesus era of God's people. This epistle was written somewhere around the mid-60s AD, some thirty years before the book of Revelation. We can assume from the book of Revelation that spiritual conditions did not improve—in fact, that things gradually became worse. Rather than the people recapturing what they had been devoted to before (in response to the exhortation of the apostle Paul, which appears now as the book of Hebrews), they continued to drift apart.
John W. Ritenbaugh
How to Know We Love ChristRelated Topics: Church at Ephesus | Drifting Apart | Ephesian Attitude | Ephesian Church | First Love, Losing | Losing First Love | Recapturing First Love
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