I want you to close your eyes and turn your imagination cap on. We are going to pretend for a minute. Let’s pretend that you wake up tomorrow morning and go to work. Your boss tells you that the company has a new policy that affects you and everyone that works for the company. Starting today everyone in the company has to bow down and worship the CEO of the company as an eternal deity, or face termination. While that might never happen now (or at least not that blatantly), that is the reality the churches of the book of Revelation faced. Many churches were faithful, some not so much. Sunday we will talk about how the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia responded to this challenge.