What does Tribe teach about testimony?
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, testimony is treated as something God initiates, not something a person manufactures. In the "Turn the Cat Around" series, Brian introduced the evening by framing it around the idea that aligning your life with God's principles leads not to an easier life but to a better one, and then handed the floor to Jay, who told the unvarnished story of a double life in high school, getting caught on Mother's Day, and sitting in a stripped-bare room with nothing left but a Bible. Jay's turning point was not a program or a formula. It was a desperate, honest prayer asking God to prove himself real, followed by reading Psalms and Proverbs and watching his family gradually follow him back to church. The congregation then added their own stories before taking communion together, so testimony was not a performance but a shared practice woven into worship.
The same conviction runs through Renee's message in the Leviticus series. She opened with her own story before she opened her Bible, describing a childhood faith that was mostly memorization, a spiral into depression and suicidal thinking after her parents divorced, and two separate moments years apart when scripture seemed to read her own thoughts back to her in real time. Both experiences led her to the same conclusion: God is always trying to speak to us, always reaching toward us. Her testimony was not offered as inspiration but as the ground floor of an argument, showing the congregation why she trusted that even a book as strange as Leviticus could be, in her words, a love letter.
Revelation 12:11 appears in both messages as the scriptural anchor for this kind of witness: the saints overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. At Tribe, that verse is not read as a motivational phrase. It is read as a description of how the life of faith actually works, suffering, surrender, and honest speech about what God has done all bound together.
Taught from Revelation 12:11 · Psalm 107:1-2 · Psalm 32 · 1 John 1:9 · 1 John 1:5
“In the struggle, if you win, you lose. But if he wins, you win.”
From Consecrated Through the Blood ｜ Renee
The passage taught · 1 John 1:5
5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- March 10, 2025 Consecrated Through the Blood ｜ Renee Renee shares her testimony and traces Jesus through Leviticus, showing how sacrifice, holiness, and God's love point forward to Christ.
- March 27, 2023 Turn the Cat around Week 6 A ski instructor shares how God rebuilt his life from the ground up, and a Wyoming congregation reflects on what it means to stop running from God and turn around.
Mentioned along the way
- September 23, 2024 Drinking Deep: Choosing Endurance Over Escape A Wyoming pastor walks through Matthew 26 and Mark 15 to explore why choosing the cup of suffering over escape is the path to spiritual maturity.