What does Tribe teach about disruption?
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 disruption starts with the observation that God does not avoid it. Brian Hunter has pointed out that Moses had been a shepherd for forty years, locked into the same routine, when the burning bush appeared right in the middle of that rut. The disciples were straining at the oars in the dark when Jesus came walking past them on the water. In both cases, the encounter with God was tucked inside something that looked, on the surface, like an interruption or an impossibility. Brian says, "God loves to encounter us in the disruption."
What determines whether a person actually meets God in those moments, the teaching argues, is whether they move toward the unusual thing or away from it. Moses says he will turn aside to look. The disciples who respond are the ones who stop letting fear run their reaction. Brian has pressed on this directly: he says, "We all want the burning bush, but very few of us are willing to see the burning bush in the midst of what we think of as a disruption." The default instinct is to back away from what knocks us off balance, but that instinct works against us, because the disruption is often the opening.
The Sukkot teaching from Pastor Brian adds another layer. God's pattern with Israel in the wilderness was to remove distractions, let the heart surface, and then receive his people anyway. The feast of Sukkot was designed to replay that pattern every year, and building a temporary shelter is meant to voluntarily break comfort's hold on the heart. The disruption, in other words, is not accidental and not the enemy. In both messages the consistent thread is that comfort and predictability tend to close us off, while disruption, rightly received, creates the conditions for something real with God.
Taught from Exodus 3:1-12 · Exodus 3:3 · Mark 6:45-52 · Leviticus 23:42-43 · Zechariah 14:16-19
“What if there is a miracle waiting for you from the Lord lurking just behind the veil of your disbelief?”
From Resisting the Rut
The passage taught · Exodus 3:1-12
1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
2 Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3 Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
4 When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- August 26, 2024 Resisting the Rut Brian Hunter uses Moses at the burning bush and Jesus walking on water to show how God meets us in disruption, not routine, if we turn aside to look.
- September 26, 2022 Sukkot Series Week 2： Remember His Goodness Brian Hunter explores the Feast of Sukkot, showing how a week in temporary shelters strips away comfort, recalibrates the heart, and draws us back to God's faithfulness.