What does Tribe teach about decision making?
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 decision making starts with a simple image: a hat rack. Brian introduced it to make one question concrete. Every belief a person holds, about identity, politics, human nature, or anything else, is like a hat. The hook you hang it on represents reality. The question is never whether you will hang your hat somewhere, but whether the hook you chose can actually bear the weight of what you put on it. Brian calls this the principle of the biggest hook. Most people never examine why they believe what they believe. They hang their beliefs where their parents hung theirs, or where social media made a hook look shiny, or simply where the crowd around them is hanging. That process has nothing to do with whether the hook is trustworthy.
The teaching draws Isaiah 22, Ezekiel 15, and Revelation 3:8 together to show where the only fully reliable hook is found. Isaiah's image of a nail driven firmly into the wall to bear great responsibility pointed forward, Brian argued, to Jesus as the one key-holder whose authority does not eventually get pulled out. Revelation 3:8 quotes that passage almost word for word and applies it to Jesus, and his own claim in John 14:6 that he is the way, the truth and the life makes him not just a good option among others but the hook whose strength is sourced in transcendent truth. Brian says, "God's hook is always the most reliable hook you can ever hang any belief you have in the entire universe."
Ezekiel 15 fills in the other side of the picture. God asks what a grapevine's wood is actually good for, and the answer is nothing structural. It cannot even serve as a peg. Brian applied that directly to the beliefs people carry: they are too important to hang on something with no structural integrity. The conclusion the teaching returns to is that any belief not anchored in the objective truth of God's word pulls a person away from the fabric of God's created order, and that disconnection, Brian said, is visible in much of what we see around us.
Taught from Isaiah 22:22-24 · Isaiah 22:25 · Revelation 3:8 · Ezekiel 15:1-5 · John 14:6
“God's hook is always the most reliable hook you can ever hang any belief you have in the entire universe.”
From Hang Your Hat on the Biggest Hook
The passage taught · 1 John 2:15
15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- June 17, 2024 Hang Your Hat on the Biggest Hook Brian Hunter uses a coat rack and hats to explore how our beliefs need to hang on hooks strong enough to bear the weight of truth, rooted in God's word.
- June 16, 2024 Hang Your Hat on God's Truth A Wyoming pastor uses a hat rack and a nail in the wall to explore what it means to hang your beliefs on truth that can actually bear the weight.