What does Tribe teach about childlike faith?
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 childlike faith is rooted in the idea that hearing God requires a posture of genuine attentiveness rather than noise and striving. Brian has walked the congregation through 1 Kings 19, where Elijah encounters God not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire, but in a still small voice. That image carries weight here: if God spoke only in the dramatic register, there would be no need for faith, no need to lean in and actually listen. The congregation itself pressed on why God works this way, and one of the answers that landed was that a good teacher goes quiet to get a class's attention rather than yelling over it. As Brian puts it, God "refuses to compete. What I have to say is so valuable, so life giving, I'm not going to compete with the clamor of other voices."
The other thread the teaching pulls on is proximity. A whisper does not imply distance. Brian describes the still small voice as evidence that God is already close, that he does not need to shout from outside because he is present from within. The channel for that communication, Brian teaches, is built into every believer by the Holy Spirit. Before faith, the only signal coming through is the Spirit's call to repent. After, it opens to everything God wants to say. That is where childlike faith comes in: not naivety, but a real willingness to be still, to trust that the voice is there, and to receive what comes through that inner knowing rather than demanding something louder or more spectacular.
Taught from 1 Kings 19:11-13 · John 16:13 · Matthew 18:3 · 1 John 2:26-29
“He refuses to compete. What I have to say is so valuable, so life giving, I'm not going to compete with the clamor of other voices.”
From The Revelation of His Word
The passage taught · 1 John 2:26-29
26 These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
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Messages that go deeper
- June 26, 2023 The Revelation of His Word Brian Hunter explores how God speaks through Scripture and the Holy Spirit, drawing on 1 Kings 19 and John 16 to show why that still, small voice matters more than we realize.