What does Tribe teach about full reward?
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 full reward starts with a single verse. Brian Hunter has built an extended series around 2 John 1:8, where John tells believers to watch out and stay diligent so they receive their full reward. Brian points out that the grammar of that verse implies a spectrum: a full reward is possible, a partial reward is possible, and no reward at all is possible. The series is careful from the start to separate this conversation from the question of salvation. As Brian puts it, "you don't work to be saved. You work because you're saved, and that work leads to reward."
The reward itself is described in scripture several different ways, and Brian works through them honestly rather than flattening them. Paul in 1 Corinthians 3 describes gold refined through fire. Jesus in Luke 19 gives a faithful servant governance over ten cities. The symbol that holds those images together, Brian says, is a crown, not a jeweled royal crown but a laurel wreath of olive leaves, the kind placed on a winner at the Olympic games. The image is about victory and achievement. The fire that tests what each person has built is the eyes of Jesus at the Bema Seat, which Brian describes not as a courtroom but as a winner's podium. What was built from gold survives and becomes the basis of reward. What was built from wood, hay, and straw burns, and the builder escapes, as Paul puts it, like someone barely making it through a wall of flames.
Reward, in this teaching, is also tied to a specific calling. Brian draws from Psalm 139:16 to describe a book in heaven with each person's name on the spine, its pages filled with everything God has already written for that individual's life. Reward is proportional to how closely a person's life lined up with that calling, which means every choice made here carries weight. The phrase Brian returns to across multiple weeks captures the whole thing: "every moment matters when forever is your measure."
Taught from 2 John 1:8 · 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 · Psalm 139:16 · Revelation 22:12 · 2 Timothy 4:8
“I want you to receive a full reward so that you will have more to lay back at his feet.”
From Your Reward Is Coming
The passage taught · 1 Peter 5:4
4 When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- September 22, 2025 Your Reward Is Coming Brian Hunter closes the Full Reward series by exploring what the Bible says about the crowns believers receive at Christ's return, and why we lay them back at his feet.
- September 21, 2025 Every Moment Matters When Forever Is Your Measure Brian Hunter preaches on heavenly reward, why every faithful act matters, and what it means to one day lay a hard-earned crown at the feet of a worthy Jesus.
- September 8, 2025 Partial Obedience Is Disobedience A Wyoming pastor walks through what Scripture says about heavenly reward, obedience, and what it means to build a life with gold rather than wood, hay, and straw.
- August 31, 2025 Dead Works: Built with Wood, Hay, and Straw A Jackson Hole pastor walks through what it means to build your life on dead works versus Spirit-led obedience, and what that costs you at the final reward.
- August 25, 2025 Saved. Now What？ A Wyoming church explores what it means to build a life that lasts, asking what kind of work survives when everything temporary is burned away.
- August 24, 2025 Wood, Hay, and Straw A Wyoming pastor and congregation explore what it means to build a life of lasting purpose, asking what God will make of the work we did with the time we had.
Mentioned along the way
- September 15, 2025 God's Masterpiece Brian Hunter preaches on eternal reward, free will, and living out your calling, then leads Tribe Church in communion after reflecting on the murder of Charlie Kirk.
- September 14, 2025 Remembering Charlie Kirk A Jackson Hole congregation gathers to grieve the loss of Charlie Kirk, share communion as a family, and reflect on living faithfully for a full eternal reward.