#710: Shaping Culture - Intent Matters

Allen Jackson Ministries

Ben Hayes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We shouldn't have to apologize for taking our faith into the public square. It's not the only worldview in the public arena, and we have every right to live out our faith intentionally. In this sermon, Pastor Allen Jackson discusses the need for us to stop hiding our Christian identity and instead shine the light of God's Kingdom purposefully in our homes and communities. We are responsible for instilling our biblical values and morals in the next generation, and that begins at our kitchen tables. It won't be easy. We will face pushback and hardship, but most things worth doing require discomfort and effort. Let's determine to do the difficult thing in pursuit of God.

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0:00.0	How many of you would be willing to do something difficult to honor the Lord?
0:09.0	That you take him with you to work or take him with you to the ball fields or take him with you to
0:12.9	wherever it is you go with your friends on your discretionary time.
0:17.2	That you'd say, you know, I wish you'd change your vocabulary or don't tell that joke.
0:23.9	Are we willing to start to live as if Jesus is at the center of our lives?
0:28.6	The challenges are we going to shape culture, are we going to be shaped by culture?
0:32.3	Those are the options.
0:42.3	You're listening to Alan Jackson Ministries. You can get the outlines for this episode at Alanjaxon.com slash podcast.
0:48.0	If these messages help build you up 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.
0:59.8	Now it's on to Pastor Allen.
1:02.1	Be blessed.
1:08.6	I've been working to a series under the theme of shaping culture.
1:12.5	At the end of the day, only the spirit of God can solve the problems that face us as a people.
1:17.7	We don't have a fundamentally political problem or an ideological problem.
1:21.9	We have a spiritual problem.
1:24.3	And it's not centered in the ungodly.
1:26.1	Our problem isn't the depravity of the wicked.
1:28.7	The great challenge we face is the indifference of the faithful.
1:34.0	We become ambivalent.
1:36.4	We just presume upon our faith.
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