What does Tribe teach about christian support israel?
Drawn from the message 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 Christian support for Israel starts with a simple question: why should a follower of Jesus care about Israel at all? Brian Hunter addressed this directly on March 3, 2024, setting aside a planned message to work through it with the congregation in real conversation. The answers that came back from the room pointed to the same foundation: loving God means loving what God loves, and Scripture is clear that God's love for Israel is not casual. Brian grounded that in Zechariah 8:2, where the Lord declares his passion for Mount Zion to be consuming and strong, and in the promise God made to Abraham in Genesis 12 that all families of the earth would be blessed through him. He named replacement theology, the idea that the church has replaced Israel and God is done with her, and rejected it plainly. Romans 11:24 was part of that rejection, with its image of Gentile believers grafted into a cultivated olive tree, making Israel and the church genuinely family rather than strangers.
The teaching did not stop at sentimentality. Brian read from Ezekiel 16, which describes Israel at birth as abandoned in a field, unwanted, with nothing to commend her. The point was honest and important: there is nothing intrinsically special about Israel that earns God's affection. What the passage shows instead is God passing by, seeing her helpless and kicking in her own blood, and choosing to say live. His covenant with Israel at Sinai was an act of grace, not a reward. Brian said this matters especially in a moment like October 7, when it can be tempting to see Israel as a nation that can do no wrong. The text does not allow that reading, and the teaching did not either.
What holds it all together, in Brian's telling, is that Scripture itself, not politics or sentiment, should be shaping how a Christian thinks about Israel. God's passionate commitment to her is not a footnote in the Old Testament that the New Testament cancels. It is a thread that runs through the whole Bible, and Tribe's teaching reflects that.
Taught from Zechariah 8:2 · Genesis 12:1-3 · Romans 11:24 · Ezekiel 16:1-15
The passage taught · 2 Corinthians 2
1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
2 For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?
3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- March 3, 2024 Our Relationship With Israel Brian Hunter leads Tribe Church through an open conversation about why Christians should care about Israel, drawing from Zechariah, Ezekiel, and Romans to ground the discussion in scripture.