What does Tribe teach about disruption?
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 disruption starts with the conviction that God is not absent from the moments that knock us off balance. He is often most present in them. Brian Hunter drew this out from two stories side by side: Moses turning aside toward a burning bush in the middle of forty years of the same routine, and the disciples on the water watching Jesus walk toward them and then intend to pass them by. In both cases, the person who encountered God was the one who moved toward the unusual thing rather than away from it. Brian put it plainly: "God loves to encounter us in the disruption."
The pattern Brian returned to is that we instinctively avoid what disrupts our comfort, but God regularly places himself right inside what we would prefer to dismiss as inconvenience. Moses had been a shepherd long enough for the rut to feel like life itself. The burning bush showed up in the middle of that rut, not outside it. Brian noted that "we all want the burning bush, but very few of us are willing to see the burning bush in the midst of what we think of as a disruption." The question he held up, without forcing an answer, was why God would wire us toward retreat and then consistently position his most significant encounters in exactly the place we are most tempted to avoid.
This thread continued in the Sukkot teaching, where Pastor Brian described the Feast of Shelters as a practice God designed to voluntarily remove comfort and recalibrate the heart. Israel's time in the wilderness was not a detour. It was the means by which God meant to do a deeper work, getting Egypt out of their hearts after getting them out of Egypt. Disruption, in this teaching, is not a sign that something has gone wrong. It is one of the primary ways God gets our attention, reveals what is actually in us, and moves us toward something we would not have reached by staying comfortable.
Taught from Exodus 3:1-12 · Exodus 3:3 · Mark 6:45-52 · Leviticus 23:42-43 · Zechariah 14:16-19
“What if there is a miracle waiting for you from the Lord lurking just behind the veil of your disbelief?”
From Resisting the Rut
The passage taught · Exodus 3:1-12
1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
2 Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3 Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
4 When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- August 26, 2024 Resisting the Rut Brian Hunter uses Moses at the burning bush and Jesus walking on water to show how God meets us in disruption, not routine, if we turn aside to look.
- September 26, 2022 Sukkot Series Week 2： Remember His Goodness Brian Hunter explores the Feast of Sukkot, showing how a week in temporary shelters strips away comfort, recalibrates the heart, and draws us back to God's faithfulness.