What does Tribe teach about breaking chains?

At Tribe, the teaching on breaking chains starts not with willpower but with what Jesus actually accomplished. Brian Hunter walked through the Feast of Unleavened Bread, where the father of a Jewish home searches room by room for every trace of yeast before Passover, and used that image to name a trap many believers fall into: trying to fight sin by focusing all their energy on finding and eliminating it in their own strength. Brian called this the little pink monkey strategy. Telling yourself not to think about something is the surest way to keep thinking about it, and the old covenant method put the entire burden of removal on the person searching.

The New Testament passages Brian taught from shift that burden completely. Jesus canceled the record of charges against us, carried sin in his body on the cross, and removed it in a way Brian described as pulling yeast out of an already-baked loaf, something that should be impossible. The Greek phrasing, he said, means out from the midst of, a complete separation of a person's sin from their identity as a son or daughter. The room wrestled together with the obvious tension: if all that is true, why do we keep sinning? Working through Romans 7, where Paul says he does the very things he does not want to do, the conversation landed on the idea that sin no longer defines a believer's identity or their standing in the family, even though the body still lives in a fallen world and falls short. As Brian put it, drawing on John 8, "If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed."

From there, Brian named what he sees as the enemy's only remaining weapon after the cross: deception. Once a person understands that their sin has been fully removed from their identity, the enemy has no ground left except to make them forget it. Brian says, "The enemy likes to get us to forget that we have no obligation to obey the voice of the enemy whatsoever." The heart of the teaching is that freedom is not something a believer earns by searching hard enough for sin. It is something they already have in Christ, and the daily work is believing and living from that reality.

Taught from John 8:34-36 · Colossians 2:13-14 · Romans 7:15-20 · Galatians 5:1 · 1 Peter 2:24