What does Tribe teach about finding god in suffering?
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 one message that touches this topic does so through personal testimony rather than extended exposition. Renee, a longtime Tribe member, opened her teaching by describing two seasons of her own life when suffering pushed her toward God rather than away from him. Growing up in a home where she memorized scripture but felt no hope, and later when her parents' divorce left her suicidal, it was not an argument or a program that reached her. Both times it was God speaking directly into what she was thinking, often through a stranger saying aloud the exact scripture she had just been wrestling with. Those moments convinced her that God is always trying to speak to us, even in our lowest places.
The thread she carried out of that testimony and into the teaching was the character of God himself. Drawing on 1 John 1:5, she described God as one who is fully without darkness, and from 2 Peter 1:2-4 she pointed to knowledge of God as the starting place for everything else, deepened through his word, prayer, worship, and being in community. The implication for suffering is that the same God who is entirely holy is also entirely present, and that the sacrificial system running through Leviticus is one long picture of how seriously he takes the distance between us and him and how far he will go to close it.
Taught from 1 John 1:5 · 2 Peter 1:2-4 · Matthew 11:28-30 · 1 Peter 1:15-16 · Hebrews 4:15
The passage taught · 1 John 1:5
5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- March 9, 2025 Entering the Arena with God Renee shares her testimony and walks through Leviticus, showing how its sacrifices, offerings, and rituals all point to Jesus and his work on our behalf.