What does Tribe teach about calling and purpose?
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 calling and purpose starts with the conviction that God has already written out a specific plan for each person's life. Brian Hunter draws from Psalm 139:16 to describe a book in heaven with each person's name on the spine, its pages filled with everything God has prepared for that individual. Ephesians adds that believers are God's 'masterpiece,' the Greek word being 'poema,' the root of the English word poem. The calling is not something a person invents or selects for themselves. It has already been authored, and the question each person faces is how closely their actual life will follow what God has written.
Reward, Brian teaches, is tied directly to that calling. The Bema Seat of Christ is not a courtroom but something closer to a winner's podium, where what a person built from gold survives and what was built from wood, hay, and straw is consumed. As Brian puts it, "You don't work to be saved. You work because you're saved. And that work earns you reward." Free will means every person chooses how closely they walk in the calling God set out for them, and those choices shape what remains on that day.
Brian also teaches that the gifts God gives each person are the tools for carrying out that calling, and those tools need to be kept sharp. Using Moses as the clearest example, he points out that the same calling to liberate Israel, operated in the flesh, produced one dead soldier and zero freed people. Operated in the spirit, forty years later, it freed over a million. The calling itself did not change. What changed was the source of power behind it. Every moment a person chooses to work from the spirit rather than the old nature is a moment that calling moves forward.
Taught from Psalm 139:16 · Ephesians 2:10 · 2 John 1:8 · Ecclesiastes 10:10 · Ephesians 1:18-19
The passage taught · 1 Kings 5:1-9
1 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.
2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
3 “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.
4 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- May 3, 2026 Work Smarter, Not Harder A Wyoming pastor draws on 1 Kings 5 to explore what it means to use your God-given gifts in the Spirit rather than the flesh, and why that difference changes everything.
- September 15, 2025 God's Masterpiece Brian Hunter preaches on eternal reward, free will, and living out your calling, then leads Tribe Church in communion after reflecting on the murder of Charlie Kirk.
- September 14, 2025 Remembering Charlie Kirk A Jackson Hole congregation gathers to grieve the loss of Charlie Kirk, share communion as a family, and reflect on living faithfully for a full eternal reward.