What does Tribe teach about 9/11 remembrance?
Drawn from the message 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 September 11 does not stay at the level of grief or patriotism. On the twenty-first anniversary, Brian Hunter opened by naming what was actually lost that day: 2,799 American civilians, and with them an attack on a shared set of principles rooted in the dignity and responsibility of the individual. Brian held love of country in honest tension with love of Jesus, pointing to history as a warning against that kind of national zeal becoming untethered from the gospel. The remembrance was a starting point, not the destination.
From there, Brian moved into Leviticus 1 and the logic of total surrender. He asked the congregation to picture a sheep herder whose whole livelihood is the flock, then imagine God asking for the best unblemished male animal, burned entirely, nothing kept back. To an outside observer, that looks like waste. Brian says, "It is a pleasing aroma to God when we hold nothing back and surrender everything to him." The connection to Jesus ran through the whole morning: Jesus was the best one, given entirely, and his blood is what opens the way into the holy place.
Brian also drew on Leviticus 7 and the peace offering, where the animal was killed and the blood sprinkled on the altar, but most of the meat was eaten in a feast with family, neighbors, and friends. He set the two offerings side by side, one consumed by fire and one consumed by community, to show the range of what surrender and worship can look like. The thread tying September 11 remembrance to ancient sacrifice was a single conviction: that what God has always wanted, and what the day called the congregation back to, is the kind of wholehearted offering that holds nothing in reserve.
Taught from Leviticus 1:1-9 · Leviticus 7:11-16 · John 12:1-6 · Romans 12:1 · John 16:33
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
From A Pleasing Aroma： Leviticus 1 & 7
The passage taught · 1 Peter 2:12
12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- September 12, 2022 A Pleasing Aroma： Leviticus 1 & 7 Brian Hunter opens Leviticus to show what wholehearted worship costs, tracing burnt offerings and peace feasts to a life poured out for God.