How to Know If Your Relationship with Jesus Is Transactional

Culture & Christianity: The Allen Jackson Podcast

Pastor Allen Jackson

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We often come to faith expecting perks like peace, blessings, and protection. When the blessings slow down, we wonder what we did wrong. We treat our relationship with Jesus like a contract: “I’ll pray, give, obey, so that you’ll give me health, salvation, and success.” But what if friendship with Jesus is less about what we collect and more about what we offer? In this episode, Pastor Allen explores the incredible privilege of being Jesus' friend and how we can invest in a deeper relationship with our Savior.
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It’s up to us to bring God’s truth back into our culture. It may feel like an impossible assignment, but there’s much we can do. Join Pastor Allen Jackson as he discusses today’s issues from a biblical perspective.

Find thought-provoking insight from Pastor Allen and his guests, equipping you to lead with your faith in your home, your school, your community, and wherever God takes you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to culture and Christianity.
0:05.0	This has been a very unusual week.
0:08.0	My friend Charlie Kirk was the victim of a political assassination.
0:12.0	Not a hit piece in the media, folks.
0:15.0	His life was taken.
0:17.0	There's not really an easy response to that.
0:20.0	I want to ask you to pray, to pray for Charlie's family, for his wife, Erica, and their
0:24.6	two children, for a Turning Point USA.
0:26.6	Pray for our nation.
0:28.6	We've got to be able to speak the truth in public.
0:31.6	Freedom of speech and the right to a peaceful assembly are necessary in order for us to maintain
0:36.6	our freedom and liberty.
0:38.3	And don't be confused, they're under threat right now.
0:41.3	Charlie Kirk was one of the, was a remarkable, remarkable man.
0:45.3	He did his good a job of sharing our faith with the younger generations,
0:49.3	college students as anyone I have ever known.
0:52.3	God used his life in a profound way.
0:55.7	It's still very fresh for all of us.
0:57.6	The emotions are very real.
0:58.8	This one feels personal.
1:00.6	I'm quite confident that God will in some way turn this for his good.
1:04.5	The devil always seems to overplay his hand,
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