What does Tribe teach about new body?
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 the new body starts with Paul's seed analogy in 1 Corinthians 15. Brian Hunter walked the room through the idea that what goes into the ground and what comes out are the same thing in origin but entirely different in form, the way a bulb and a rose are related but look nothing alike. As Brian puts it, "Put the bulb of your body in the ground and up comes the rose of your resurrected body." The resurrected body is continuous with this one but transformed into something Paul calls spiritual, fitted for a new kind of existence.
To make that concrete, Pastor Brian turned to the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus in Luke 24. Jesus appeared in a locked room, invited the disciples to touch him, and ate broiled fish in front of them, and yet he had gone unrecognized on the road to Emmaus until he broke bread. The group landed on the idea that the resurrected body is physically tangible and recognizable, but no longer constrained by the physics that govern this one. None of that is abstract comfort either. Brian said that every body we have now was "buried in brokenness and in weakness," but the resurrection changes the terms entirely. As he put it, "Death is in the rearview mirror. We've already done all the dying we're ever gonna do."
On the question of when, Brian walked through 1 Thessalonians 4 and Matthew 24, both of which describe Jesus returning visibly, with a trumpet blast, gathering his people to meet him in the air. For those who die before that return, the trumpet raises them first. For those still living, the change happens in a moment. And that new body, Brian went on to say in the following week's session, is not an end in itself. It is what he called a super suit, fitted for the real assignment that follows: reigning with Jesus and helping to renew the earth.
Taught from 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 · 1 Corinthians 15:50-53 · 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 · Luke 24:31-43 · Matthew 24:30-31
“Death is in the rearview mirror. We've already done all the dying we're ever gonna do.”
From New Body Coming
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15:35-49
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”
36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
37 That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.
38 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- November 7, 2022 New Body Coming Brian Hunter walks through 1 Corinthians 15 and Luke 24 to explore what the Bible says about resurrection bodies, when we receive them, and why it matters now.
Mentioned along the way
- November 14, 2022 Training for Reigning Brian Hunter walks through what ruling and reigning with Jesus actually means, looking at Romans 8, Revelation 20, and Isaiah 11 as literal promises, not just spiritual metaphors.