What does Tribe teach about waiting on 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 waiting on God starts with an honest look at how uncomfortable that waiting actually is. Brian Hunter has returned to Psalm 37:34 more than once as a compass verse for the church, and he has never softened what the text asks. The Hebrew behind 'put your hope in the Lord' carries the image of strands being twisted and braided together, the way faith and action and God's enabling get wound into something that holds. That kind of hope is not wishful thinking. It is active, watchful, and participatory. Brian says, 'Sometimes it takes the Lord a long time to act suddenly,' and that tension between trusting a guaranteed promise and actually having to wait inside it is where most of the real work of faith happens.
The waiting the church has been taught is not passive. Brian draws from the Hebrew behind 'travel steadily' to show that it carries the sense of watching, observing, and being on guard, what he calls finish-line waiting, the kind that actually changes the person in the race. The congregation has heard that God's promises always require some participation on the human side. As Brian has put it, 'God's promises are always guaranteed, but they are not always automatic.' Sitting still and hoping something arrives is not the picture; neither is running ahead and manufacturing something without first hearing what God has said. The path is narrower than either of those.
The church has also sat with the cost of waiting well. Brian has been candid that for someone wired as a visionary leader, 'Stay close might be the hardest vision we've ever had to run on.' Tribe has lived that in practical terms, years of looking at facility options that did not work out, a direction to stay close when the instinct was to move fast. The pastoral counsel that has run through all of it is a simple shift in how people approach prayer in a long season: instead of telling God what needs to happen, ask Him what He wants you to know about Him in this situation.
Taught from Psalm 37:34 · Hebrews 11:32-34 · Psalm 103:7 · Hebrews 12:1-2 · Psalm 37:7
“Sometimes it takes the Lord a long time to act suddenly.”
From Travel Steady Along His Path
The passage taught · 1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- January 1, 2024 Travel Steady Along His Path Brian Hunter reflects on Psalm 37:34 with his congregation, reviewing how Tribe Church pursued steadfastness in 2023 and what it means to travel steady along God's path.
- January 23, 2023 Travel Steady Along His Path Week 3 Psalm 37 study on waiting for God, growing in obedience, and what it means in Hebrew to be honored and lifted up by him.
- January 16, 2023 Travel Steady Along His Path Brian Hunter walks Tribe through Psalm 37:34, exploring how God's promises are guaranteed but never automatic, and what it looks like to actively wait on the Lord.
- January 9, 2023 Travel Steady Along His Path： A Word for Tribe 2023 Pastor Brian Hunter walks through Psalm 37:34, asking Tribe fam where their hope really rests and what it means to travel steadily along God's path into 2023.
Mentioned along the way
- November 3, 2025 Little G Gods Connor leads Tribe through Exodus 32, asking what happens when we worship a wrong or incomplete picture of God, and how to get that picture right.
- November 2, 2025 Get the Picture? Connor leads Tribe through Exodus 32, exploring what a distorted image of God looks like and how Scripture, community, and honest wrestling can correct it.
- October 31, 2022 Happy Birthday Tribe! Tribe Church in Jackson Hole marks its sixth birthday by studying 1 Chronicles 17, where David learns that God builds the house, not the other way around.