What does Tribe teach about renewing your mind?
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 renewing your mind starts with a clear distinction: when someone invites Jesus into their heart, the spirit and the heart are made new, but the mind is not automatically rewritten. Brian Hunter points to Romans 12:2 to say that renewing the mind is ongoing work, not a one-time event at salvation. Our neural pathways and old patterns do not get instantly overwritten the moment we are saved, which is why people who are already alive in Christ can still find themselves wearing what Brian calls grave clothes, the shame, the condemnation, the sense of being a failure or damaged goods that belong on dead people, not on people who have been raised.
The practical answer Brian keeps returning to is the deliberate act of speaking truth over yourself. In the Lazarus story, Lazarus could not unwrap himself, and the crowd had to do it at Jesus' instruction. In the same way, renewing the mind requires active participation, taking thoughts captive, refusing to agree with what the enemy says, and choosing to reckon yourself dead to sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus as Paul describes in Romans 6. One image from the congregation that Brian ran with was approaching life from a seated-with-Christ-in-heavenly-places posture and asking what Jesus sees, rather than listening to the voice of guilt.
In the holiness series, Brian connects this same idea to the practice of filling the mind with God's word. Making room in a packed life creates a vacuum, and the word is what fills it. The image he used was a seed planted during reading that God can later water and cause to surface in the middle of a workday, a class, or a parenting moment. Renewing the mind is not a discipline that happens all at once but a steady, ongoing process of planting, watering, and letting God's word do its work from the inside out.
Taught from Romans 12:2 · Romans 6:6-11 · Romans 6:14 · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · 1 Thessalonians 4:7
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 9:27
27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- July 26, 2026 The How of Holiness A Wyoming pastor walks through three practical ways to pursue holiness, drawing from Matthew 11 and the idea that God's invitation is not a demand but a calling.
- April 29, 2024 Unwrapped: Finding Freedom Outside the Tomb A Wyoming pastor walks through John 11, asking why alive people keep wearing grave clothes, and inviting the congregation to step out of old patterns and shame.
- April 28, 2024 Unwrapped: Finding Freedom Outside of the Tomb A pastor and congregation in Jackson Hole explore John 11 and ask why so many Christians who have been made new still walk around wrapped in the grave clothes of guilt and shame.
Mentioned along the way
- June 1, 2025 The Great Reward A Jackson Hole pastor leads his congregation through Psalm 19, exploring what happens when God's word is buried deep in the heart rather than just read from a page.