The Cultural Battle Christians Pretend Isn’t Happening [Featuring Rob McCoy]

Culture & Christianity: The Allen Jackson Podcast

Pastor Allen Jackson

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What if the Church’s silence created the very culture Christians are now afraid of? In this powerful conversation, Allen Jackson and Pastor Rob McCoy tackle the growing confusion surrounding truth, politics, Israel, and the next generation of believers. They discuss why so many young Christians are being discipled by the internet instead of the Church, how fear and passivity weakened Christian influence in culture, and why courageous faith is needed now more than ever. If you’ve been wondering how Christians should respond in a culture filled with deception, this conversation is for you.

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0:00.0	When a pastor says, I just preach the gospel, you know, I don't do politics because politics is dirty.
0:04.7	I go, well, your life's dirty, and you're trying to improve that.
0:21.3	Or they say, I'm tired of voting for the lesser two evils. Unless Jesus is running for office, you're always voting for the lesser two evils. Quit making excuses as to why you can't love your neighbor. So if you're going to get to talk to the folks, what are you going to say to them? You're going to be in a world of information overload.
0:21.2	The greatest filter is to spend be in a world of information overload.
0:25.4	The greatest filter is to spend time in a hard copy of the Word of God.
0:48.8	You'll be able to discern between what's right and what's wrong and what's true and what's false. Welcome to Culture and Christianity. You know the goal.
0:49.9	We want to take our faith outside the walls of the church, live it out in our lives.
0:54.8	I'm delighted. I have a friend with me today. Pastor Rob McCoy, welcome. Thank you. It's good to be with you. I'm going to jump. Let's jump in the deep into the book. You live in California, first of all, so there is proof there are Christians there. Yes, sir. Yeah, People's Republic of California, there are Christians there. Now, we're on gulags, but, yeah, I'm not just kidding.
1:13.7	You know, they used to... Yeah, People's Republic of California, there are Christians there. Now, we're on gulags, but yeah, just kidding.
1:13.7	You know, the Catholic priest in town used to say that we were the second largest Catholic church in the community because of the number of people that were migrating.
1:23.8	We're getting close to having as many Californians as you do, I think. I mean, it seems like...
1:28.3	Yeah, when I was here Sunday and I spoke, a number of folks came up that were from our church.
1:33.3	Really?
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:35.3	Oh, now that's fun.
1:36.3	A ton of Californians.
1:38.3	So the whole...
1:39.3	There's a big chunk of the current contemporary Christian world that thinks Christian should stay out of
1:45.3	conversations on current events. And you are kind of the antithesis of that. You were actually
1:51.1	the mayor of Thousand Oaks? Yep. While your pastor? Well, senior pastor, right. Yeah.
1:56.8	So you not only didn't separate the church and state, you commingled them.
2:04.1	Yeah, my mom used to say, never talk about religion and politics and mixed company.
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