What does First B Jackson teach about loneliness?
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 Baptist Jackson, the teaching on loneliness starts with a simple but serious claim: the quality of our lives is the quality of our relationships. That phrase has shown up across multiple messages here, and it sits underneath everything the church has taught on this subject. It is not just a self-help observation. It connects directly to how God designed human beings and to what the church is actually for.
Pastor Brad and Pastor Josh have both pointed to the roughly 45 'one another' commands in the New Testament as the shape of what life inside the church is supposed to look like. Love one another, bear one another's burdens, confess to one another, pray for one another, encourage one another, do not neglect meeting together. These are not optional extras for people who happen to enjoy community. They describe what the church is. The loneliness so many people feel is not just a personal struggle; it is what happens when those commands go unmet, and the teaching here takes that seriously. Brad also named the cultural forces working against real connection, including the way screen time crowds out the hours that could be spent in scripture or with other believers, making people ineffective even when nothing obviously destructive is happening.
The answer the teaching keeps returning to is not a program but a practice: show up, stay in contact, and be willing to let love cost something. The good Samaritan did not feel compassion from a safe distance. He acted at personal expense with no expectation of return. Both Brad and Pastor Josh have held that parable up as the model for how believers are to move toward one another and toward anyone around them who is hurting. A question as simple as 'how can I be praying for you?' has never offended anyone, and it opens more honest conversations than most people expect. That is where connection begins.
Taught from Luke 10:25-37 · Ephesians 2:8-10 · Romans 8:28 · Matthew 5:14-16 · James 4:14
The passage taught · 2 Corinthians 12
1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows),
4 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- April 13, 2025 Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Jesus defines neighbor as anyone in your path, and calls us to costly, sacrificial love for every person made in God's image, both inside and outside the church.
- March 9, 2025 There Are No Ordinary People Brad walks through the parable of the Good Samaritan to explore what it truly means to love your neighbor, from strangers on the street to brothers and sisters in Christ.
Mentioned along the way
- September 4, 2024 Women's Bible Study - September 4th, 2024 - First Week on Matthew with Deborah Buckingham Deborah Buckingham opens an 8-week study of Matthew at a women's Bible study in Jackson, Wyoming, exploring evidence for Jesus and four forces that pull us from knowing God.
- June 18, 2023 The Lord Is My Shepherd A Wyoming pastor walks through Psalm 23, reflecting on community, grief, and the God who searches for wandering sheep and restores weary souls.