Jackson’s Story

We had the awesome opportunity to sit down with Kenneth Jackson aka “Jackson” and capture him and his families’ testimony about Experience Church.TV and why they’ve made it apart of their lives.

My life was relatively the same before Experience Church to how it is now, I’ve been in church my whole life, so I was still serving, still going to church every Sunday; coming to EXP Church though, it was nice to see that there was another church out there that believed in the same love values as the church my father [Kenneth Jackson Sr.] pastors, by that I mean, showing love to others and the importance of love, and showing them that love works. But, ultimately, my life wasn’t too much different– constantly serving, constantly involved in ministry. 

What made me stay at EXP Church was the people. And the word. The word was one-hundred percent, accurate and biblically sound. I told my wife before we came here, “If the people aren’t giving us hugs and loving on us when we come in the door, this isn’t going to be our church.” Because that’s the type of atmosphere we came from and that’s God, I mean, God is Love, and love works. SO, when we came here and we received that, we were like “Yeah, this is the one.” What kept us here was the people, and the true heart; and we’re human and there’s no harsh passing of judgement here, there’s room to make mistakes and grow and learn, and with love in a community like this, it allows people to flourish.

With walking into any new church, or job, or career path, there are always similarities to what you’ve done or known before, but there are also things that are done differently and you also learn new things that you might never have learned before. Even if it’s just learning how this church functions, you’ll go “Hey, we never did that, that’s pretty cool!”, and you see in a lot of different perspectives, and you get to learn and see, and you get set into a different mentality. And the leadership here does a great job of putting people in a position to be successful and there’s not a lot of churches that do that. A lot of the time churches will plug in people just because they can plug in people and that’s how you find a lot of areas failing, there’s no commitment behind the people in those areas. And what I love about what EXP Church does is the processes that are set in place to position people towards success but also they make sure to weed out the people that are participating just to participate.