What does Tribe teach about baptism story?
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 baptism that comes through in this series treats it as a public, outward sign of an inward return, not a ritual performed in a building but a declaration made in the world. The story Pastor Brian told was about a young woman named Ali who had come to Jackson Hole, drifted from her faith, and spent years in occult practice and new age religion before coming back to the Lord. In the final weeks before she left the valley, she was baptized in the Snake River on October 31, renouncing her past as a concrete, visible act of what she described as an inward return. The congregation watched a short video of that moment together and prayed for her.
The setting of Ali's baptism in the Snake River, performed by someone named Carla, and the timing of the renunciation all point to how Tribe holds baptism: it belongs to the moment of genuine turning, and it is meant to be witnessed by the community. Brian connected her story to the larger themes of Isaiah 62, where going out through the gates and raising a banner for the nations is not a private act. The banner flying over a life matters, and baptism is one of the ways that banner gets named publicly.
Taught from Isaiah 62
“Nobody paves a road for no reason.”
From Throw Open the Gates
The passage taught · Acts 1:6-8
6 Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
7 He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- 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.