What does First B Jackson teach about missionary journey?
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 Paul's missionary journeys stays close to the texture of the actual travel: real names, real coastlines, real distances, and real people from wildly different backgrounds drawn into the same family by the same gospel. Pastor Ray has pointed out that what looks like bare travelogue is actually the shape of a life lived in step with God, and that the specificity of those details gives the whole account the feel of something that actually happened. Pastor Jason made a similar point working through the first journey, noting that God tends to move through connections and through ordinary people who are simply willing to keep moving.
The journeys themselves are not treated as heroic adventure but as costly, directed obedience. Before Paul and Barnabas ever sailed from Antioch, the Holy Spirit had already been shaping the timing, blocking certain doors and opening others. On the second journey, Pastor Josh traced how the Spirit closed the road south into Asia and north into Bithynia before opening Macedonia, and the travelers accepted each closed door without requiring an explanation. On the third journey, Pastor Ray drew a direct line between Paul pressing toward Jerusalem knowing chains and afflictions were waiting, and the moment in Luke's Gospel when Jesus set His face toward Jerusalem. The missionary road, in this teaching, is always the road of surrender.
What the journeys produce is equally concrete. At every stop, whether a synagogue in Pisidian Antioch, a riverbank in Philippi, or a beach at Miletus, the same gospel goes forward: repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The church at Antioch that launched the whole effort was itself already a foretaste of what Revelation 5 and 7 describe, with men from Cyprus, North Africa, and Herod's own household serving and fasting together. That same breadth, Pastor Ray noted working through Acts 13, was not incidental. The word of God keeps going forward through ordinary sent people, and it reaches an astonishing variety of people when it does.
Taught from Acts 13:1-12 · Acts 16:6 · Acts 18:18-19:10 · Acts 20 · Luke 9:51
The passage taught · Ephesians 2:8-10
8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, that no one would boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
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Messages that go deeper
- July 20, 2025 Acts 20: The Book of Acts Paul races toward Jerusalem, says goodbye to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, and leaves them with a charge to guard the flock and trust God's grace.
- July 20, 2025 Innocent of the Blood of All People Pastor Ray walks through Acts 20, where Paul says his goodbyes, raises a boy from the dead, and charges the Ephesian elders to guard God's flock with their lives.
- July 6, 2025 In Him We Live and Move and Have Our Being The pastor walks through Acts 18-19, tracing Paul's journey from Corinth to Ephesus and showing how God works through the ordinary details of life to spread the gospel.
- July 6, 2025 The Way of God More Accurately Pastor Ray walks through Acts 18, showing how Paul, Apollos, and a handful of disciples in Ephesus were all taught the way of God more accurately, and what that means for us.
- April 27, 2025 Continually Filled with Joy and the Holy Spirit Pastor Mark traces Acts 13 from Paul's synagogue sermon in Pisidian Antioch to the resurrection promise, weaving in lessons from a recent mission trip to Uganda.
- April 6, 2025 The Word of God Keeps Going Forward Pastor Ray walks through Acts 13, tracing the first missionary journey, then shares firsthand stories from a recent trip to South Africa where the gospel is still changing lives.
- November 24, 2013 God Is Still in the Business of Saving and Changing Lives A Wyoming pastor walks through Acts 16, showing how God saved Lydia, a slave girl, and a jailer, and why that same work of saving and changing lives continues today.