What does Tribe teach about faith and trust?
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 faith and trust keeps coming back to a single honest question: where are you actually hanging your beliefs, and is that hook strong enough to hold them? Brian Walker introduced what he calls the principle of the biggest hook, the observation that the loudest or most popular narrative in a room tends to collect the most agreement, but that popularity and truth are not the same thing. As he put it, "Just because it's louder doesn't mean it's true." The call is to be genuinely honest about where a belief came from before testing whether it can bear real weight.
Brian teaches that trusting God's Word means being willing to set aside compelling cultural or even church-shaped stories when Scripture tells a different one. Using Zechariah 12, he showed the congregation that Jerusalem is pictured as an immovable stone, and that anyone who tries to move it on their own terms ends up injured. The application he drew is personal as much as political: "It is better to fall on that rock and be shattered than to be foolish enough to try to lift that stone with your own strength." Faith, in this framework, is not a feeling of certainty but a decision about which hook is actually load-bearing.
Underlying all of this is Brian's conviction that opposition to God's plans is real and has a source. He traced what the Bible says about Satan's nature and described him as a being whose only move is destruction: "He is a vandal, and all he can do is try to tear down and pollute and destroy the most beautiful of God's plans." Recognizing that helps the congregation understand why trusting God's truth, rather than the loudest voice in the room, requires a conscious and ongoing choice.
Taught from Zechariah 12:1-3 · Matthew 21:44 · Deuteronomy 7:6-9 · Revelation 12:11 · Isaiah 9:1-7
“Just because it's louder doesn't mean it's true.”
From Israel: A Stone in the Path
The passage taught · Deuteronomy 7:6-9
6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- July 8, 2024 Israel: A Stone in the Path Brian Hunter walks through Zechariah 12 to explore why Israel remains the most contested piece of ground on earth and what Scripture says about where we hang our beliefs.