What does First B Jackson teach about missionary sending?
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 missionary sending is rooted in the actual texture of the book of Acts, where sending is never a program but a pattern. Pastor Jonathan has preached Acts 12 as a chapter bookended by two missionary moments: the believers in Antioch sending relief to Jerusalem at the close of chapter 11, and the commissioning of Barnabas and Saul at the close of chapter 12. The whole chapter in between, with its persecution, its prison, its miraculous deliverance, and Herod's sudden death, is what missionary sending actually looks like on the ground. The word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied, and that line is treated here not as a triumphant footnote but as the steady thread that runs through suffering and setbacks alike.
The church's own life is held up alongside that biblical pattern. The Sunday Pastor Jonathan preached Acts 12 was the same Sunday First B Jackson was commissioning Anders and Brooke to go to Livingston, Zambia. The teaching made no effort to separate those two things. The early church sent people into danger and uncertainty, prayed earnestly for them, and then found that God was doing more than they had actually expected. That is the same posture the church is called to now: genuine, fervent prayer for those who go, combined with an honest reckoning that God's willingness to act tends to outrun what the people praying had imagined.
Pastor Chad, preaching the same text on the same day, framed the whole chapter around the question of who is actually in charge of the advance of the gospel. Herod thought he was. He was wrong. The chapter is not finally about Peter's courage or the church's strategy. It is about God moving the gospel forward through and around every obstacle, including death itself, and the church's role is to send, to pray, and to trust that the one who raised up the early church is the same one at work today.
Taught from Acts 12:24 · Acts 12:25 · Acts 11:29-30 · Ephesians 3:20-21
The passage taught · Acts 11:29-30
29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- March 30, 2025 His Truth Abideth Still When a king kills an apostle, frees another, and dies in pride, Acts 12 shows that God's word advances on His terms, not ours.
- March 30, 2025 The Word of the Lord Continued to Grow Acts 12 shows God's power over kings and prison cells. A Wyoming church sends missionaries to Zambia as the word of the Lord continues to grow and multiply.
Mentioned along the way
- February 16, 2025 This week's Sermon from First B Jackson- February 16th 2025 Peter defends taking the gospel to Gentiles, and a Wyoming congregation hears how God removes barriers so that anyone can repent and receive eternal life.
- February 16, 2025 Who Was I to Stand in God's Way? Peter defends taking the gospel to Gentiles, and a Wyoming congregation reflects on breaking barriers, divine appointments, and carrying good news to everyone.
- August 14, 2022 Sunday, Aug 14 Jesus Feeds the 5000 Jesus feeds 5,000 in all four Gospels. Pastor Ray walks through each account to show what God can do when we offer Him what little we have.