What does Tribe teach about community?
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 community starts with a simple but sobering observation: isolation rarely announces itself. Brian drew this out of John 10, where Jesus describes the wolf not killing the sheep outright but scattering them. That scattering, Brian said, is one of the enemy's primary tactics, and it almost never happens all at once. As he put it, "His tactic is to just scatter you and to just put a little bit of distance, a little bit of distance, a little bit of compromise at a time." One day a person looks up and realizes they are cut off from their community, from their spouse, from the habits that kept them close to God, and they cannot quite say when it happened.
The congregation itself pushed back on any romantic picture of community. Being together is not always easy, but the peace of the Lord is found inside it, not apart from it. That corporate voice matters to how Tribe understands this: the teaching is not delivered from a stage and received in isolation, it is tested and confirmed by people sharing their own experience alongside it.
This theme runs through the church's broader teaching as well. Jay's testimony in the "Turn the Cat Around" series showed what drift looks like from the inside: a gradual double life, small lies compounding until everything collapsed. What brought him back was not a solo decision but scripture, prayer, and Christian community working together. At Tribe, community is not an optional add-on to faith. It is part of the structure that keeps a person within earshot of God's voice.
Taught from John 10:1-19 · Psalm 107:1-2 · Psalm 32
“His tactic is to just scatter you and to just put a little bit of distance, a little bit of distance, a little bit of compromise at a time.”
From They Recognize His Voice and Come to Him
The passage taught · John 10:1-19
1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- July 24, 2023 They Recognize His Voice and Come to Him A Wyoming pastor and his congregation explore how to recognize God's voice, using John 10 as their guide in the final week of a six-week series.
- March 27, 2023 Turn the Cat around Week 6 A ski instructor shares how God rebuilt his life from the ground up, and a Wyoming congregation reflects on what it means to stop running from God and turn around.