What does Tribe teach about quiet time?
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 quiet time starts with a simple but sobering distinction: God is the one who sends the fire, but what happens after that first moment of ignition is your responsibility. Brian Hunter, walking through Leviticus 6:8-13, pointed the congregation to the priestly instructions about the altar fire, where the command not to let the fire go out appears again and again in just a handful of verses. Because 1 Peter 2:9 identifies believers as a royal priesthood, those instructions land on every person in the room. Brian was direct: it is not the Lord's job, not the pastor's job, not your spouse's job. Brian says, "God will send the fire, but it is your job to maintain the fire."
Two practical images came out of that passage. The first is the priest changing into work clothes to haul out the ashes before putting his uniform back on and adding fresh wood. Brian read that as a daily rhythm: letting go of yesterday's failures and sin, because Brian says, "yesterday's ashes have no capacity to fuel today's fire." The second image is the fresh wood added every morning, which points to why quiet time cannot simply run on what God did in you last week or last year. What your best quiet time looks like will differ by season, he acknowledged, whether that is an elaborate morning practice or simply whispering thanks on the way to a medical treatment, but the daily tending is not optional.
Brian returned to the same theme in his December messages on Psalm 27, naming the practical danger he called the doldrums, a sailing term for being becalmed with no wind and no direction. His concern was not rest itself, which he affirmed as good and necessary, but the drift past rest into spiritual deadness. He offered the image of verse 8, where God says "come and talk with me" and David's heart answers immediately. Brian read that exchange as a picture of God's spirit speaking to the human spirit, which then has to bring the soul and body along into an actual response. The invitation is always open, and the question quiet time is meant to answer is whether we are listening.
Taught from Leviticus 6:8-13 · Leviticus 9:23-24 · 1 Peter 2:9 · Psalm 27:8 · Psalm 27
“God will send the fire, but it is your job to maintain the fire.”
From The Fire That Never Goes Out
The passage taught · 1 Peter 2:9
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- April 7, 2025 The Fire That Never Goes Out Leviticus 6 holds a surprising lesson: God starts the fire, but keeping it burning is our responsibility every single day.
- December 30, 2024 Come and Talk with Me Pastor Brian Hunter walks Tribe through Psalm 27, calling the congregation out of holiday spiritual drift and into quiet, attentive time with God before the new year.
- December 22, 2024 Come and Talk with Me A sermon on Psalm 27 about staying spiritually alert during the lull between Christmas and New Year's, with four simple practices to quiet yourself and hear God speak.