What does Tribe teach about boundary stones?
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 boundary stones starts with Genesis. Pastor Brian Brian opened from Genesis 1:27-31, where God creates human beings male and female, and grounded everything that followed in that text: two biological sexes are not a cultural arrangement but God's design, set in place before any law or opinion existed to weigh in. The image he reached for was Proverbs 22 and the ancient boundary stones that marked each family's God-given land in Israel. Those stones were not arbitrary lines. Moving them was not a zoning dispute. It was a violation of something God had established, and Brian said the same logic applies to what is happening now with the definition of biological sex and womanhood.
He read Romans 1:18-32 and said Paul described, two thousand years ago, exactly the dynamic Tribe is living inside. When a society suppresses the truth about the Creator and redirects its worship toward the created, Paul shows that God gives that society over to increasingly confused and darkened thinking. Brian connected that directly to what he called the current cultural difficulty, noting that we have arrived at a moment where, as he put it, "we dare not even speculate at the common sense definition of what a woman is."
The teaching did not stop at critique. Brian moved through John 12, John 14, Psalm 139, and Zephaniah 3:11, and the message landed on the care God has for women specifically. He read from Philippians 4:6-7 and Zephaniah's promise that God "will quiet you with his love" as words meant for the women in the room. His stated aim was not political targeting but something more personal: as a husband and father, he said something rises in him when those boundary stones are moved, and he wanted to honor and protect what God has designed rather than simply argue about it.
Taught from Genesis 1:27-31 · Romans 1:18-32 · Proverbs 22 · Psalm 139 · Philippians 4:6-7
“Falling in love with creation here in this valley is like reading an amazing book and then asking where you can get a bottle of the ink that book was written with.”
From Tribe JH Livestream Mothers Day 2023
The passage taught · Colossians 3:16
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- May 15, 2023 Tribe JH Livestream Mothers Day 2023 Brian Hunter preaches on Mother's Day from Genesis and Romans, honoring women, defining God's design for humanity, and pointing a Jackson Hole congregation back to the creator.