What does Tribe teach about spiritual gifts?
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 spiritual gifts starts with where they come from. Brian has traced the Greek root of the word through charis and charisma to land on a clear point: these are undeserved gifts, given freely by God without regard to the recipient's merit. God does not reserve good gifts for people who have earned them. That is simply his nature expressed toward people.
The gifts are not meant to be held privately. Drawing on 1 Corinthians 12, the teaching has been direct that the gifts are given for the profit of all, meaning they find their full purpose when expressed in community. Sitting on a gift, or writing it off as something you were never given in the first place, is a way of leaving something on the table that God already set down in front of you. The church in Corinth, as messy and divided as it was, still received Paul's genuine thanks for the gracious gifts at work among them, which is its own kind of encouragement for imperfect congregations today.
The teaching on the baptism of the Holy Spirit connects closely to all of this. Brian has taught that when a person is saved, the Holy Spirit takes up full residence in them, not a portion or a fragment. But there is a step beyond that initial indwelling. As Brian puts it, "When I get saved, the Holy Spirit lives in me, but he awaits for me to give him permission to operate through me." The gifts flow from that cooperation. The Spirit gives wisdom, insight, and the capacity to stand firm, and the gifts find their real power when a believer chooses, daily, to live out of what God has placed in them rather than their own default.
Taught from 1 Corinthians 12 · 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 · Luke 11:11-13 · Ephesians 1:17 · Romans 12
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 12
1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
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The messages that teach on it
- November 30, 2025 Encountering God’s Goodness A Wyoming pastor explores Paul's opening words to the troubled church at Corinth and asks why genuine thankfulness flows naturally from encountering God's goodness.
- August 14, 2023 Baptism of the Holy Spirit: What, How, and Why Brian Hunter walks through what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is, why it matters, and how to receive it, drawing from Luke 11 and Romans 7.
Mentioned along the way
- May 24, 2026 Your Calling: The Clue of the Callus A Wyoming pastor walks through Judges 6 and other Bible stories to help listeners discover their God-given calling and tell it apart from identity, gifts, and job.