#709: Shaping Culture - One Home at a Time
Allen Jackson Ministries
Ben Hayes
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
When we practice hospitality like God directs us to, He can change the course of history. In this sermon, Pastor Allen Jackson discusses how we can shape culture by opening our homes and being receptive to God's instruction. He shares from the history of the early Church and how apostles like Peter and Paul practiced hospitality in ways that furthered God's mission in the earth. Pastor Allen also relates the history of World Outreach, starting with his own family's willingness to open their home to gathering, and he tells stories from the life of Corrie ten Boom, whose family's hospitality saved over 800 lives during World War II. It's rarely convenient to share your kitchen table with the community, but by practicing hospitality, we join with God in extending His Kingdom.
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| 0:00.0 | I said to the Lord, I need to know if you're real, I'll honor you, but if you're not real, |
| 0:08.0 | I'm going to set me free. |
| 0:11.0 | And I set off on a journey to try to decide. |
| 0:13.0 | So I started trying to honor the Lord and figure that out because I thought, if it's real, I'll get in, but if it's not, I don't want to be bothered with it. |
| 0:19.0 | But that image of them reading their Bibles at night when they were tired and they would talk about it and get animated, |
| 0:25.3 | they'd come say to us, listen to what we read, and we're like, we're watching TV. |
| 0:30.4 | But it was authentic enough that it changed me. |
| 0:33.3 | Is your faith authentic enough to impact the people that live with you? |
| 0:39.9 | You're listening to Alan Jackson Ministries. |
| 0:42.8 | You can get the outlines for this episode at Alanjaxon.com slash podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | If these messages help build you up, |
| 0:50.1 | or encourage you to be a more fully devoted Christ follower, |
| 0:53.7 | leave us a five-star rating and review. |
| 0:56.5 | Hopefully, that will help others find out about them as well. |
| 0:59.7 | Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed. |
| 1:08.9 | We're working through a series called shaping culture. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's really a reflection of a much larger attempt to message that all over the walls of our building from one end of the lobby to the other. |
| 1:19.6 | There are aspects of shaping culture. |
| 1:22.6 | And they're highlighted repeatedly by the phrase that we believe the church is intended to shape culture, |
| 1:27.6 | not be shaped by culture. |
| 1:30.6 | I think that's what it means to be salt and light. |
| 1:33.8 | I think that's what it is to hold out good news. |
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