What does Tribe teach about sin and redemption?
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 sin and redemption starts with the garden. Pastor Brian has described sin not as one bad choice among many but as a condition that entered the whole human race when humanity chose independence from God, bringing with it war, sickness, death, and, as he put it, "this condition of sin that has infected all of us is terminal, resulting in death, separation forever from God's family." No person can escape that on their own. But even in the moment that condition took hold, God already had a plan.
That plan arrived in the person of Jesus, and Brian has taught that the cross is where the full weight of sin was dealt with. Working through Psalm 22 on Easter Sunday, he showed how Jesus walked deliberately into the territory of darkness, not as a victim but as someone going to pick a fight. What looked to every observer like total defeat, the crucifixion, was actually the judgment of the very powers that had driven sin and death. Brian put it plainly: "The cross was not the triumph of darkness, but the judgment of it." The powers that thought they had won in that moment were the ones who had actually lost, and the resurrection three days later was the proof.
The redemption on offer is described as an exchange, available to anyone willing to receive it. Jesus faced what Brian calls the fierce bulls, everything that surrounds a person with no way out, no help, no hope, no rescue, so that we would not have to face them alone. The Christmas teaching makes the same point from a different angle: God gave the Messiah first to Israel and then, going further than anyone expected, to the whole world, so that God and mankind could be reunited as family.
Taught from Psalm 22:1-24 · Colossians 2:14 · 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 · Isaiah 9 · John 3:16
“The cross was not the triumph of darkness, but the judgment of it.”
From Easter Sunday at Tribe
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
55 “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- April 6, 2026 Easter Sunday at Tribe Brian Hunter preaches on Psalm 22 at Easter, tracing the "bulls of Bashan" from David's cry to the cross, and what Christ's resurrection means for anyone feeling surrounded and trapped.
- December 25, 2025 Tribe Christmas Eve Service - Town Square A Christmas Eve message from Jackson Hole about why the story of Christmas begins not in Bethlehem but in a garden, and what the gift of the Messiah means for everyone.