What does Tribe teach about confession?
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 confession starts with honesty about what unconfessed sin actually does to a person. In the April messages on 'Devoted to Destruction,' the speaker described living a double life, showing up, serving faithfully, saying the right things, and still not experiencing the life and peace Romans talks about, because he was not submitted to God's law. He had chosen to isolate and hide his heart from people who loved him rather than repent and cut sin out. 1 John 1:5-9 anchored the point: walking in the light means bringing what is hidden into the open, not managing it quietly.
The January worship and prayer morning pressed into the same territory from a different angle. Lissa Hunter described a picture that came to her during worship, a knotted tangle of things people carry, hurts done to them mixed up with things they genuinely need to own and repent of. She said the enemy thrives in that confusion and would rather people keep rehearsing the tangle than let God sort it out. Someone in the room that morning shared what had been said while praying with someone that week: God is not going to simply remove a sin you are passively wishing away. You have to partner with him, put skin in the game, and make the decision that you are done with it. That is when God moves.
The broader call across these messages is that confession is not the end of something but the beginning of movement. James 5:16 was named in that January gathering, and the room itself became a picture of what the verse describes, people praying aloud, confessing decades of resentment, asking forgiveness for what they had held on to. The teaching at Tribe is that hiding keeps people stuck, and that bringing sin into the light, before God and before others, is what opens the door to real change.
Taught from 1 John 1:5-9 · James 5:16 · Romans 8:5-8 · Galatians 5:24-25 · Psalm 32:1-5
“Singing and worry cannot exist in the same space.”
From Worship Is a Sacrifice
The passage taught · 2 Corinthians 9:6-8
6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
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Messages that go deeper
- May 6, 2024 Worship Is a Sacrifice Tribe's worship team leads a congregation-wide conversation on what it really means to worship, from singing and Scripture to giving and daily obedience.
- April 15, 2024 Devoted to Destruction A guest speaker leads Tribe church through Deuteronomy, Galatians and Romans, calling believers to stop coddling sin and ruthlessly cut out whatever pulls them from God.
- April 14, 2024 Devoted to Destruction A guest speaker at a Wyoming church walks through Scripture on why followers of Jesus must fully destroy sinful patterns rather than make room for them.
- January 30, 2023 Worship and Prayer A Sunday of worship, prayer, and communion at a Wyoming church, where members shared personal struggles, prayed the Lord's Prayer line by line, and sought forgiveness together.