What does Tribe teach about surrender to god?
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 surrender to God starts with an ancient text most churches skip past. Working through the Olah offering in Leviticus 1, Brian Hunter drew the congregation into one of the oldest pictures of what it looks like to hold nothing back. The Olah is a free will offering, brought not because of a sin to cover or a ritual requirement to meet, but out of the worshiper's own choosing, out of gratitude or celebration or the completion of a vow. And unlike other offerings, nothing comes home. The entire animal, every part of it, goes onto the fire.
One detail from the text kept surfacing in the conversation: the worshiper lays his hand on the animal's head before it is killed. That is not a small gesture. It is an intimate, deliberate act of transfer, a real moment of choosing. And the head goes on the altar first. Brian connected that sequence to something the congregation could feel: if you surrender the hardest thing first, the seat of your will and your desire, everything else follows more easily. That thread carried all the way to Romans 12:1 and Paul's call to present our bodies as living sacrifices. The Leviticus picture and the New Testament call are the same invitation, just separated by centuries.
The teaching was honest about the cost. A forced apology with your heart not in it is not an offering. The congregation also sat with John 12 and the woman with the alabaster jar, whose gift looked like waste to Judas but was the truest kind of surrender. What Tribe's teaching keeps pressing is that real surrender is chosen, costly, and complete. As Brian put it, "If everything is figured out, if we don't ever have to do anything hard, we don't really need the Lord."
Taught from Leviticus 1:1-9 · Romans 12:1 · John 12
“He held nothing back from you.”
From The Olah Offering
The passage taught · 1 Samuel 1
1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
2 He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- March 31, 2025 The Olah Offering A Wyoming church works through Leviticus, exploring what it means to hold nothing back from God and offer your whole life as a living sacrifice.
- March 30, 2025 The Ola Offering A Wyoming pastor walks through Leviticus 1 and the Olah offering, a burnt sacrifice consumed completely, and asks what it looks like to give God everything.
Mentioned along the way
- November 13, 2023 Throw Open the Gates Brian Hunter walks through Isaiah 62, exploring what it means to clear the road for God's people, replace false banners with God's love, and pray for Israel.
- 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.