What does First B Jackson teach about sharing your faith?
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 sharing your faith starts with a blunt observation: we are all already evangelists. Pastor Brad has pointed out that we recommend restaurants, movies, and the best route to Salt Lake City without a second thought, and yet we treat faith as something personal and private. He named that hesitation directly as one of the enemy's most effective tactics, one that keeps us quiet while eternity is at stake for the people around us. Silence, he argued, is not a neutral choice.
Working through 1 Peter 3:15, Pastor Brad organized the practical shape of this around three areas: the attitude we bring, the answers we can offer, and the personal hope we carry. On attitude, he stressed that gentleness and respect are not just good manners. They flow from remembering that we ourselves were once enemies of God before He came after us. The goal is not to win an argument but to win a brother or a sister. On answers, he offered a grounding in basic Christian apologetics, pointing to three facts that even secular historians broadly accept: Jesus was a real historical person, he was crucified for claiming to be God, and his followers claimed he rose from the dead on the third day. He drew on C. S. Lewis's framework of Lord, liar, or lunatic, and said there is no intellectually honest middle ground that allows Jesus to be merely a good teacher.
The teaching also makes a point of addressing the inner posture behind all of this. Before getting into what to say or how to say it, Pastor Brad insisted that the commands of Scripture have to be held rightly. They are not a measuring stick for whether God accepts us. We start at the cross and the empty tomb, not at a checklist. The faith that saves is never alone, and it does produce fruit, but the foundation stays fixed: we are saved by grace alone. Nick Stern, speaking from his own experience sharing faith with strangers on the Camino de Santiago, put it plainly from Romans 10:14: people cannot believe in someone they have never heard of, and they cannot hear without someone speaking. For a congregation in one of the wealthiest communities in the country, facing no real persecution, the excuses run thin.
Taught from 1 Peter 3:13-17 · Romans 10:14 · Philippians 1:29 · Romans 5 · 1 Corinthians 15
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15
1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- January 4, 2026 Awkward Is Better Than Silent Pastor Brad walks through 1 Peter 3:13-17, showing why faith is personal but never private, and how to share it with gentleness, reason, and honest hope.
- January 4, 2026 Share the Hope That Is in You A First Baptist Jackson sermon on sharing your faith with gentleness, reason, and a personal testimony, rooted in 1 Peter 3:13-17.
- July 23, 2023 As You Are Going Nick Stern shares stories from hiking the Camino de Santiago and how conversations along the trail opened doors to share the gospel with strangers from around the world.
- July 23, 2023 What the Camino Taught Me About Sharing Faith Nick Stern shares how hiking the Camino de Santiago opened unexpected doors to share the gospel, and why every Christian can do the same wherever they go.
Mentioned along the way
- August 31, 2025 Cast Your Cares on the Lord and He Will Sustain You Paul stands trial before Felix, facing a murder plot and smarmy lawyers, while God quietly moves through a nephew's courage and a governor's fear.
- June 22, 2025 Start Where You Are Paul stays longest in Corinth, finds coworkers, faces opposition, and hears God say "don't be afraid." A sermon on faithful presence and bold witness.
- March 2, 2025 Gospel Carriers in Word and Deed Acts 11 traces how scattered believers carried the gospel to Antioch. Pastor Carl walks through what that early church moment means for how we live and give today.
- February 23, 2025 Gospel Carriers in Word and Deed Acts 11 shows a young church carrying the gospel outward through scattering, sacrifice, and ordinary witnesses. A sermon on staying true to the Lord and joining what God is already doing.
- February 23, 2025 Stay True to the Lord A sermon from Acts 11 on how ordinary believers carried the gospel outward, and what it looks like to take, remember, rely on, encourage, and participate today.
- February 2, 2025 This week's Sermon @ First B Jackson February 2nd 2025 Acts 9 traces Saul's escape from Damascus, his cautious welcome in Jerusalem, and Peter's healings in Lydda and Joppa as the early church grows bold and outward.
- February 2, 2025 God Is On the Move Ahead of You Acts 9: Saul's conversion stuns Damascus, Barnabas vouches for him in Jerusalem, and Peter heals Aeneas and raises Tabitha as the early church spreads.
- 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 This week's Sermon from First B Jackson January 19th Philip dropped everything when God said go, and ended up baptizing an Ethiopian official on a desert road. What happens when you actually want the ball?
- 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.
- December 3, 2023 You Are God's Own Possession Brad Yates opens 1 Peter 2:9-10 to show what it means to be chosen, holy, and God's own people, and why that identity calls us to proclaim Christ together.
- March 5, 2023 Sunday, March 5, 2023 - 11am Traditional Service - God Gives Good Things To Those Who Love Him Pastor Ray teaches on Luke 11, showing how Jesus follows the Lord's Prayer with a call to shameless, persistent asking of a Father who gives generously.
- February 5, 2023 The Gospel in Ten Words or Less Pastor Ray asks his congregation to answer one question: what is the gospel in 10 words or less? Their answers reveal the heart of Christian faith.
- August 28, 2022 God, Use Me Today Florian, a Romanian pastor preparing to return to missions, shares from Colossians 1 on living as a child of God and asking Him to use you each day.
- July 24, 2022 Commissioning of the 12 Jesus sends out the Twelve with authority, clear instructions, and a radical call to trust God, proclaim His kingdom, and love boldly even when rejected.
- March 14, 2022 The Very Last and the Servant of All Brad teaches Mark 9:30-38 at First Baptist Jackson, showing how Jesus calls his followers to serve the least and live by the upside-down economics of God's kingdom.
- March 8, 2022 As For You, Follow Me Peter denied Jesus, yet Jesus met him with breakfast and restoration. A study of John 21 on what it means to be forgiven, called, and told simply: follow me.
- November 5, 2017 The Cross Is Not Sugarcoated Gary Geek shares a direct message on the gospel of Christ: why the cross is offensive, what true repentance costs, and why every believer is called to share their faith.
- November 5, 2017 The Fabric of Our Faith Gary Geek shares why every Christian is called to proclaim the full gospel of Christ boldly, without fear, and what that message truly costs and demands.
- May 7, 2017 Mark Hull Elder Mark Hall shares how fear, of a mountain lion, of hell at age nine, and for his children, drew him toward God's grace rather than away from it.
- April 23, 2017 Stuff That Matters Paul closes Colossians with a list of real people and a clear message: prayer, open doors, wise words, and caring for both outsiders and insiders all matter to God.
- February 7, 2016 Y'all Know the Gospel Pastor Ray crowdsourced Romans 1:16-17 from his congregation, asking them to define the gospel in 10 words or less. Their answers reveal what the good news really means.
- January 31, 2016 Not Ashamed of the Gospel Pastor Carl walks through Romans 1:8-17, asking every believer to put the gospel into one clear sentence, and shows why that matters for sharing faith with others.
- January 31, 2016 Not Ashamed of the Gospel Romans 1:8-17 explores what the gospel really is, why Paul was not ashamed of it, and how every believer should be able to say it plainly in a sentence.
- April 5, 2015 He Is Risen: Past, Present, and Future Easter sermon from First Baptist Jackson on the resurrection of Jesus, what it means to believe, and how that belief shapes the way we live today and into the future.
- July 7, 2013 On a Mission from God Peter and the apostles refuse to stop preaching despite arrest and flogging. A look at Acts 5 and the pattern of God's power, opposition, and advancing witness.
- 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.