What does Tribe teach about faith and trust?
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 faith and trust keeps returning to a single honest question: where are you actually hanging your beliefs, and is that hook strong enough to hold them? Brian Walker has built this out through what he calls the principle of the biggest hook. The loudest narrative in any room tends to collect the most hats, but as Brian puts it, "Just because it's louder doesn't mean it's true." Real faith means being willing to examine what your beliefs are resting on, even when the popular story feels compelling and the quieter one feels costly.
A second thread running through the teaching is what happens when someone sets themselves against what God has established. Drawing from Zechariah 12, Brian spent time on the image of Jerusalem as an immovable stone that injures anyone who tries to lift it. He applied that image more broadly to the posture of trusting God's declared purposes rather than trying to manage or dismiss them on your own terms. The point landed with some directness: Brian says, "It is better to fall on that rock and be shattered than to be foolish enough to try to lift that stone with your own strength."
Underneath both threads is a conviction about the nature of opposition to God's plans. Brian traced Satan's role as a figure whose only real move is destruction, describing him as someone who "is a vandal, and all he can do is try to tear down and pollute and destroy the most beautiful of God's plans." For the congregation, that framing is meant to be clarifying rather than frightening. If the opposition to what God is doing is ultimately that hollow, then anchoring your trust in what God has actually said carries far more weight than anchoring it in whatever narrative is currently the loudest.
Taught from Zechariah 12:1-3 · Deuteronomy 7:6-9 · Matthew 21:44 · Revelation 12:11 · Isaiah 9:1-7
“Just because it's louder doesn't mean it's true.”
From Israel: A Stone in the Path
The passage taught · Deuteronomy 7:6-9
6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
World English Bible
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- July 8, 2024 Israel: A Stone in the Path Brian Hunter walks through Zechariah 12 to explore why Israel remains the most contested piece of ground on earth and what Scripture says about where we hang our beliefs.