For a few weeks now, my pastor has been preaching a sermon series based on the letters to the churches in Revelation. Yesterday, the sermon's focus was on the letter written to the church at Pergamum (Rev 2:12-17). The people of that city were participating in idol worship, sexual deviance, and the like. And the church was coming right alongside - jumping straight into the fires of sin like all the rest. In short, the letter was a harsh rebuke to a community of professing believers who were living anything-but-Christlike lifestyles.
