What does Tribe teach about all in with jesus?

At Tribe, the teaching on being all in with Jesus starts with an honest look at what it actually costs. In the series on new wine and wineskins, Brian Hunter worked through a simple but uncomfortable observation: the vessel that holds new wine is only ever made through the death of an animal. A stone jar or a clay pot costs nothing in terms of life, but a wineskin requires something to die. Brian held that up not as a metaphor to soften but as the literal shape of what God asks when He wants to do something new in a person.

The teaching moved through two stories placed back to back in Mark 10 to show what that looks like in real people. The rich young ruler had kept the commandments since childhood, and Jesus looked at him with love before asking him to let go of everything and follow. The man walked away sorrowful because his capacity, however faithful it had been under the old covenant, could not stretch to hold what Jesus was offering. Brian connected him directly to the line at the end of Luke's wineskin passage, where most people taste old wine and decide the old is good enough. The rich young ruler is a portrait of exactly that conclusion.

Bartimaeus stands right beside that story in Mark 10 as a deliberate contrast. He threw aside his cloak, the thing most likely to be his only real possession, kept shouting when people told him to stop, and when Jesus called him, ran forward without pausing to pick anything up. The congregation named what they saw in him: a willingness to leave comfort, to ask for mercy rather than a transaction, to abandon what little security he had. For Brian, Bartimaeus is what being all in actually looks like, someone who, when Jesus called, left everything on the ground.

Taught from Mark 10:17-28 · Mark 10:46 · Luke 5:33-39 · 1 John 1:9