What does First B Jackson teach about witnessing?
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 witnessing starts with the conviction that it belongs to ordinary people, not just extraordinary ones. In the Acts 5 messages and the Acts 10 series, Pastor Matt and Pastor Mark both return to the same pattern running through the early chapters of Acts: God moves, His word interprets what is happening, opposition rises and fails, and the witness advances anyway. The apostles who scattered from Gethsemane, the same men who fell asleep while Jesus prayed, are the ones standing before the Sanhedrin and going back to the temple before sunrise. The power behind it was never theirs.
The Acts 10 messages press hard on what witnessing costs in practice. Peter had to cross a boundary he had kept his entire life before he could open his mouth to Cornelius's household. The vision on the rooftop was not mainly about food. It was about who Peter was willing to go to. Pastor Mark and Pastor Matt both land on the same point: God was already at work in Cornelius before Peter arrived, moving him toward the light he had, so that when the gospel finally came, Cornelius was ready to receive it. The believer's job is to go, without making distinctions about who is worthy to hear it.
Ray's message from John 9 frames witnessing as the natural outflow of union with Christ. The man born blind did not have a theological argument prepared. He told what he knew from his own experience, and that was enough. The teaching here is consistent: a witness reports what happened. It does not require credentials, only honesty about what God has done.
Taught from Acts 10:1-48 · Acts 5:12-42 · Acts 1:8 · John 9:1-38 · Acts 1:22
The passage taught · Acts 1
1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- February 16, 2025 No Distinction Peter's vision and Cornelius's angel encounter show how God breaks down barriers between people to bring the gospel to everyone, Gentile and Jew alike.
- February 9, 2025 No Favoritism With God Peter enters a Roman soldier's home and the Holy Spirit falls on Gentiles. A modern miracle from Gaza shows God still works the same way today.
- February 9, 2025 God Shows No Favoritism Peter visits Cornelius in Acts 10, and Pastor shows how God breaks down every barrier we build between ourselves and people we consider outsiders.
- June 12, 2016 Work the Works While It Is Day A pastor walks through Romans 7 and John 9 to show how union with Christ through faith calls believers to simple obedience, honest testimony, and worship.
- July 7, 2013 We're on a Mission from God Acts 5 shows a repeating pattern: God moves with power, His word interprets, opposition arises and is thwarted, and the witness advances. Are you in that progression?
Mentioned along the way
- October 6, 2019 Romanian Missionary. REMM - Traditional A Romanian missionary shares how prayer, grace, and the fall of communism opened doors for the gospel across Romania and around the world.