What does Tribe teach about decision making?
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 decision making starts with a simple image: a hat rack. Brian used it to frame the central question behind every belief and every choice a person makes. Each belief you hold is like a hat, and every hat has to hang somewhere. The hook you choose represents whatever authority or source you treat as ultimate reality. The teaching pushed hard on the fact that most people never examine why they hang a belief where they do. They hang it where their parents hung theirs, where social media made something look trustworthy, or where the crowd around them has already gathered. Brian calls this the principle of the biggest hook, and his point is that the shiniest or most familiar hook is not necessarily the strongest one.
The biblical grounding came from Isaiah 22 and Ezekiel 15. Isaiah pictures a doorkeeper installed like a nail driven firmly into a wall, given enormous responsibility and access. Ezekiel asks what a grapevine's wood is actually good for structurally, and the answer is nothing. Brian drew the application directly: hanging a belief on something with no structural integrity has real consequences. As Brian put it, "Any belief that we hold that doesn't conform to reality disconnects us from the fabric of God's created order."
Both messages landed on the same conclusion. Isaiah 22 itself foreshadows that even the best human hook will eventually be pulled out, and Revelation 3:8 picks up that thread and applies it to Jesus, who holds the key of David permanently. Jesus's claim in John 14:6 that he is the way, the truth and the life is what makes him not just a good option among others but the one hook whose strength comes from transcendent truth. Brian says, "God's hook is always the most reliable hook you can ever hang any belief you have in the entire universe." For anyone working through a decision right now, the teaching at Tribe keeps returning to that same starting point: before you decide what to believe or how to act, ask what hook you are hanging it on, and whether that hook can bear the weight.
Taught from Isaiah 22:22-24 · Ezekiel 15:1-5 · Revelation 3:8 · John 14:6 · Proverbs 3:5
“God's hook is always the most reliable hook you can ever hang any belief you have in the entire universe.”
From Hang Your Hat on the Biggest Hook
The passage taught · 1 John 2:15
15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- June 17, 2024 Hang Your Hat on the Biggest Hook Brian Hunter uses a coat rack and hats to explore how our beliefs need to hang on hooks strong enough to bear the weight of truth, rooted in God's word.
- June 16, 2024 Hang Your Hat on God's Truth A Wyoming pastor uses a hat rack and a nail in the wall to explore what it means to hang your beliefs on truth that can actually bear the weight.