What does First B Jackson teach about great commission?
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 the Great Commission starts with the grammar of Matthew 28. Both Pastor Mark and Ray have walked carefully through the Greek, pointing out that the only true imperative in the passage is "make disciples." The going, the baptizing, and the teaching are participles, the shape of how disciple-making happens, not separate commands standing alongside it. The commission is not a program for people with cross-cultural interests. It is the primary task Jesus left for his church, and it runs through the ordinary movement of every believer's life.
The story of Philip and the Ethiopian official in Acts 8 has come up repeatedly as a living picture of what that commission looks like on the ground. Pastor Nick and Pastor Mark have both preached it, and both landed on the same thing: Philip went when he was told to go, ran when he was told to run, and was ready to act on the Spirit's direction because he wanted the ball. The Ethiopian was reading Isaiah 53 aloud in his carriage, seven hundred years of prophecy pointing directly to Jesus, and Philip started right there in that text and told him the good news. When water appeared on a desert road, the man asked what was stopping him from being baptized, and the answer was nothing, only a confession that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Scott Eichen, preaching from Mark 16, put the weight of that commission on the congregation plainly: every neighbor, every coworker, every grandchild is lost without Jesus. God did not wait for anyone to clean themselves up before sending Christ. He came for sinners, and He chose to use ordinary, imperfect people to carry that news forward. The same church that came from twelve frightened disciples is the one meeting in rooms like this, and the command to go into all the world and proclaim the gospel has not been recalled.
Taught from Matthew 28:18-20 · Acts 8:26-40 · Isaiah 53:7-8 · Mark 16:15 · Acts 1:8
The passage taught · Acts 8:26-40
26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”
27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
28 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- January 19, 2025 Here Is Water, What Hinders You Acts 8:26-40: Philip follows God's lead on a desert road and shares the gospel with an Ethiopian official, showing how ordinary obedience fuels the spread of the good news.
- January 19, 2025 Philip Wants the Ball Philip runs alongside an Ethiopian official's chariot and shares the gospel from Isaiah 53, leading to baptism. A study of obedience, readiness, and the Great Commission.
- April 7, 2024 He Is Not Here, He Has Risen Pastor Mark walks through Matthew's resurrection account, examining the women at the tomb, the guards' bribe, the Great Commission, and what it means when believers still doubt.
- April 7, 2024 He Has Risen Just As He Said Ray preaches Matthew 28 on resurrection, doubt and the Great Commission, then leads First Baptist Jackson in communion and sends off J Zone missionaries to Zambia.
- May 12, 2013 Tell the World!, Morning Praise (2) Scott Eichen shares why followers of Jesus must be passionate about proclaiming the gospel, and announces his family's calling to plant a church in Littleton, Colorado.
- May 12, 2013 Tell the World, Traditions (2) Scott shares the resurrection account from Mark 16 and challenges believers to proclaim the gospel, while announcing his family's calling to plant a church in Littleton, Colorado.
Mentioned along the way
- October 27, 2024 You Will Receive Power The pastor opens Acts 1, showing how the early believers prepared for the Holy Spirit through obedience, fellowship, prayer, and studying God's word.
- May 5, 2024 Wonder Working Power in the Precious Blood Pastor Ray walks through Mark 16:9-20, explaining why some Bibles bracket these verses and what the passage teaches about the resurrection, the Great Commission, and communion.
- February 19, 2023 The Spreading Circle Psalm 67 shows God blesses His people not as an end in itself, but so His grace spreads outward to every nation, people, and tongue on earth.
- March 3, 2019 The Lord Stood With Me Paul closes 2 Timothy with a list of names, and Pastor Ray traces what faithfulness, desertion, and service look like in the lives of real people then and now.
- December 9, 2018 A Light to the Gentiles Ray walks First Baptist Jackson through Isaiah 49, showing how God called Jesus as a servant and light to all nations, and how that calling extends to the church today.