What does Tribe teach about finding god?

At Tribe, the teaching on finding God starts with the conviction that God is always the one reaching first. Renee, who has been part of Tribe since the beginning, shared her own story of two moments when scripture met her exactly where she was, once as a teenager spiraling into depression and suicidal thinking, and once years later when a stranger on a bus seemed to speak her private thoughts back to her. Both times, she said, pointed to the same truth: God is not hiding. As Renee put it, "God is always writing us a love letter." Even a book as unfamiliar as Leviticus, she taught, is part of that letter.

Renee traced that love letter through the sacrificial system in Leviticus, showing that every animal prescribed for offering points forward to Jesus. The bull, the lamb, the dove, each one was God narrowing the picture toward the moment John the Baptist would say, look, the Lamb of God. The pagan world around Israel was reading animal organs to find divine guidance; God was calling His people to bring those same organs to the altar, closing the door on every false way of reaching Him and opening the only true one. Holiness, the congregation worked through together, is a perfection none of us can produce on our own, which is precisely why we needed Jesus to do what the altar only symbolized.

The practical weight of this for someone searching for God right now is that the search is already being met from the other side. Consecration in Leviticus meant blood on the altar; the teaching at Tribe is that Jesus has done that work on the human heart. The altar is no longer a structure in a tent somewhere. Finding God, in this teaching, is less about locating something distant and more about recognizing what God has already been doing to get to us.

Taught from Acts 17:27-31 · John 1:29 · Matthew 11:28-30 · Leviticus 1:4-5 · 2 Peter 1:2-4