What does Tribe teach about law vs grace?
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 law and grace starts with an uncomfortable question: why did the Pharisees respond to a miracle by plotting murder? Brian Hunter opened the floor to the congregation and let the answers build. What emerged was a portrait of people so deeply invested in the Mosaic Law as the established path to God that Jesus became a direct threat to everything they understood as right relationship with him. Romans 8:7 was read aloud as an anchor for what followed: the mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God and cannot submit to his law.
The series Brian is leading moves back and forth between Galatians and Leviticus, holding them together deliberately. Galatians 2 carries Paul's argument that no one is justified by observing the law but by faith in Christ, landing on verse 20 as the destination the whole series is moving toward: the old self crucified with Christ, Christ himself now living in the believer. Leviticus is not read as the graveyard of Bible-in-a-year resolutions but as a blueprint showing Israel how to create a sacred environment where God could dwell among his people. The glory filling the tabernacle in Exodus 40, with Moses unable to enter, is the precise problem Leviticus exists to solve, and the weight of the burnt offering regulations in Leviticus 1 is meant to be felt. Brian says, "For a life giving relationship with God, something has to die."
The image Brian used to frame the series is pointed: when your will and God's will enter the arena together, only one can walk out. The law, read through Galatians, is not the enemy but it is not the destination either. It presses the question of what you are trusting, and it makes plain that choosing your own way is never a neutral act. Brian put it plainly: "You plot how to murder Jesus by choosing your own way."
Taught from Galatians 2:15-21 · Galatians 2:20 · Romans 8:7 · Leviticus 1:1-17 · Exodus 40:34-38
“For a life giving relationship with God, something has to die.”
From Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves
The passage taught · Exodus 33:7-11
7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
8 When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
9 When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- February 17, 2025 Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves Brian Hunter opens a new series in Leviticus and Galatians, exploring what it really costs to live in relationship with God and why something always has to die.
- February 16, 2025 The Series: Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves A Jackson Hole pastor opens a series on Leviticus and Galatians, exploring why something must die for a life-giving relationship with God to begin.