What does First B Jackson teach about comfort zone?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on comfort zones begins not with self-help language but with the incarnation itself. The preacher who brought this message had spent years living among the Navajo people, and he opened by asking the congregation to imagine the moment in eternity when the Father turned to the Son and said, in effect, it is time to leave your comfort zone. That framing came directly from John 1:14, where the Word became human and lived among us. Jesus did not send instructions from a distance. He left his own culture, took on ours completely, spoke the language, wore the clothes, and moved into the neighborhood. That is what leaving a comfort zone looks like when God does it.
The message pressed that image against the history of Christian mission to Native peoples, where well-meaning believers had done the opposite: instead of entering a culture, they had imposed their own, telling Native people to cut their hair, put away their drums, and stop being who they were before they could hear the gospel. The result was that the message itself became the barrier. The word the preacher kept returning to was the contrast between incarnational and impositional, and the difference, he said, is whether you are willing to go where people are rather than demanding they come to where you are comfortable.
Isaiah 43:19 sat underneath the whole message: God says He is doing something new, and it is already happening. The preacher pointed out that God speaks these new things to people who are actually listening, and that the religious figures in the parable walked past the man on the road because they were too busy with their duties to notice. Leaving a comfort zone, in this teaching, is not a personal growth strategy. It is the shape of the gospel itself, modeled by Jesus and asked of anyone who wants to carry that gospel to others.
Taught from John 1:14 · John 1:1-3 · Isaiah 43:19 · John 14:5-11 · 1 Corinthians 11:13-16
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 11:13-16
13 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
14 Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- October 2, 2016 10 02 16 Sunday Sermon Traditions Duane & Diane Bristow Missionaries Duane and Diane Bristow share how incarnational ministry among the Navajo people means revealing the Father through relationship, not imposing religious culture.
- October 2, 2016 The Word Became Human and Lived Among Us Missionary Duane Bristow shares how Jesus modeled incarnational ministry by entering our culture, and challenges believers to carry that same living witness to others.
- October 2, 2016 The Word Became Human and Lived Among Us Dwayne Bristow of Navajo Brethren in Christ Mission preaches on incarnational ministry, asking whether we reveal the Father to others or merely impose our own religious standards.