What does Tribe teach about uncomfortable faith?
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 uncomfortable faith starts with a simple observation: the pattern in Scripture is consistent. God's most significant invitations do not arrive in comfortable, familiar moments. They arrive inside disruption. Brian Hunter walked the congregation through Exodus 24:7-11, where Moses, Aaron, and seventy elders made a serious climb up Mount Sinai and sat down to eat a covenant meal in the presence of God. The hike alone, roughly twice the vertical gain of Snow King, meant the encounter required real inconvenience before any of it happened. That was not incidental to the story. It was the shape of the story.
Brian tied that meal on the mountain to Psalm 23:5, "You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies." He said immaturity grabs for the feast, the anointing, and the overflowing cup while trying to avoid the enemies. Maturity recognizes that the feast and the enemies often arrive together. He worked through three other biblical examples to show the same pattern: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego only encountered a fourth man in the fire because they were thrown into it; Peter only walked on water because there was a storm; Paul only received an angelic visitation because his ship was being torn apart. In each case the encounter came inside the hard thing, not after it passed.
Brian's counsel to the room was direct: look for the invitation in the midst of disruption. Christian maturity, he said, is largely about becoming comfortable being uncomfortable, not in a grim or defeatist way, but because this is simply what God is like and how He works. The feast is real. The anointing is real. The overflowing cup is real. But the verse does not say those things come when everything is easy. They come in the presence of enemies.
Taught from Exodus 24:7-11 · Psalms 23:5 · Daniel 3 · Acts 27 · John 16:33
“The only thing that'll make you draw near to God and keep you away from sin is suffering.”
From The Feast on the Mountain
The passage taught · Acts 27
1 When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
2 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
3 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
4 Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- November 10, 2025 The Feast on the Mountain Brian Hunter walks through Exodus 24, where 70 elders hiked Mount Sinai to dine with God, and draws out a simple challenge: look for God's invitation inside life's disruptions.
- November 9, 2025 Meal on the Mountain A sermon from Tribe Church in Jackson Hole exploring Exodus 24, where 70 elders dined with God on Sinai, and what it means to find God in life's disruptions.