What does Tribe teach about buying oil?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on buying oil starts with the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25. Brian has spent real time on this parable, and the central point he keeps landing on is that oil cannot be transferred from one person to another. No pastor, no worship service, and no community can supply what only personal intimacy with God can produce. As Brian says, "You cannot burn your lamp off of somebody else's oil."
The way oil is purchased, Brian teaches, mirrors the physical process of producing olive oil: crushing and pressing. Small acts of surrender and obedience are the currency. It is not dramatic sacrifice alone but the accumulation of faithful, quiet choices to yield to God that fills the lamp over time.
What gives this teaching its weight is the seriousness Brian brings to the parable's ending. He does not soften it. He says plainly that "there will come a day where it will be too late to buy oil, and you must burn your lamp with whatever supply you have." The store closes. That moment in the parable is treated not as a theological curiosity but as a real warning, and the point of sitting with it is not fear but urgency about the daily, personal work of staying close to God now.
Taught from Matthew 25 · Luke 5:33-39 · Matthew 24 · Hebrews 10:25
“You cannot burn your lamp off of somebody else's oil.”
From New Wineskins for Sale
The passage taught · Hebrews 10:25
25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- October 28, 2024 New Wineskins for Sale Brian Hunter reflects on Tribe's eight years, using Jesus' parable of new wine and wineskins to explore what the Holy Spirit has been building in this small Jackson Hole church.
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