What does Tribe teach about confession?
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 confession starts with honesty about what hiding costs. In the April message on sin and the flesh, the speaker described showing up at Tribe, saying the right things, serving faithfully, and still living what felt like a double life because he was not submitted to God's law. The comparison he drew was direct: Israel was given clear instruction and the victory, and still left the job unfinished. The same thing happens when a believer isolates and hides his heart from people who love him rather than bringing sin into the open.
The January worship and prayer gathering pressed that same nerve from a different angle. Lissa Hunter described the enemy's strategy plainly: he wants you to feel like you are the only one who has ever struggled with that, to hide it and keep it a secret. James 5:16 gave the gathering its footing. What came out of that morning was people praying aloud, naming specific things they had carried for years, including decades of resentment and old wounds that had never been released. The picture Lissa shared was of a tangle knotted through healthy tissue that a surgeon has to separate carefully, because the hurts that were done to you and the things you genuinely need to own and repent of are often wound together, and God wants to sort them out rather than have you keep rehearsing the tangle.
The teaching at Tribe does not frame confession as a transaction that tidies things up. It is a decision, made with God, that you are done with something. Jay shared something from Pastor Brian that captured that posture: God is not going to simply remove a sin you are passively wishing away. You have to partner with him, put skin in the game, and make the decision that you are done with it. That is when God moves. Unconfessed sin, the teaching made clear in the worship and prayer morning, is one of the main things standing between a believer and the life and peace God intends.
Taught from 1 John 1:5-9 · James 5:16 · Romans 8:5-8 · Galatians 5:24-25 · Psalm 32:1-5
“Singing and worry cannot exist in the same space.”
From Worship Is a Sacrifice
The passage taught · 2 Corinthians 9:6-8
6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
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The messages that teach on it
- May 6, 2024 Worship Is a Sacrifice Tribe's worship team leads a congregation-wide conversation on what it really means to worship, from singing and Scripture to giving and daily obedience.
- April 15, 2024 Devoted to Destruction A guest speaker leads Tribe church through Deuteronomy, Galatians and Romans, calling believers to stop coddling sin and ruthlessly cut out whatever pulls them from God.
- January 30, 2023 Worship and Prayer A Sunday of worship, prayer, and communion at a Wyoming church, where members shared personal struggles, prayed the Lord's Prayer line by line, and sought forgiveness together.
Mentioned along the way
- April 14, 2024 Devoted to Destruction A guest speaker at a Wyoming church walks through Scripture on why followers of Jesus must fully destroy sinful patterns rather than make room for them.