What does Tribe teach about revival?
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 revival starts with a question Brian sat with out loud: how do you position a church to be on a collision course with a sovereign move of God? He was honest that there is a tension to manage here, not a problem to solve. One ditch is thinking revival is entirely up to us if we check enough boxes. The other is a hands-off attitude that says God will do what he will do and leaves it there. He pointed to the disciples on the water: Jesus was passing them by, and it was their response that brought him into the boat.
Brian opened that conversation by sharing what was happening at Asbury College in Kentucky, where a chapel service turned into an ongoing time of prayer, worship, and repentance. What struck him most was that students simply sought the Lord without any expectation of what would follow, and the Lord showed up and did what he does when his presence fills a room. He was neither dismissing it nor overselling it. His honest position was that the length or the ending of something does not necessarily determine whether it was genuine.
The series that followed pressed into what it looks like to stop asking God to conform to us and start conforming to him. The text from Ezekiel 18 has God telling Israel plainly that he is not the one who needs to change. Brian tied this to what he called the integrity of God, the idea that God has never acted contrary to his own character, never made a promise he forgot. That consistency is not stubbornness, he said. It is the thing that makes God trustworthy. And he noted that the leadership of Jesus in the days ahead will be, in his words, "less complicated, but more costly." Positioning for revival, at Tribe, means turning toward God rather than waiting for God to turn toward us.
Taught from Ezekiel 18:23-32 · 2 Kings 5:1-15 · Hebrews 12:1 · John 16:33 · Psalm 34:1-8
“In the days ahead, the leadership of Jesus will be less complicated, but it will be more costly.”
From Turn Your Cat Around
The passage taught · 2 Kings 5:1-15
1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”
4 Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- March 6, 2023 Turn Your Cat Around Brian Hunter walks Tribe through 2 Kings 5, showing how Naaman's pride nearly cost him his healing and why letting go of the how, where, and what-ifs still matters today.
- February 20, 2023 Turn the Cat Around Week 1 - Turn and Live A Wyoming congregation wrestles with Ezekiel 18, the Asbury revival, and what it costs to stop asking God to change and turn your own heart around instead.