What does Tribe teach about revival?
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 revival starts with an honest question Brian has sat with out loud: how do you position a church to be on a collision course with a sovereign move of God? He raised that question in the context of what was happening at Asbury College in Kentucky, where a chapel service turned into an ongoing time of prayer, worship, and repentance. His honest position was that he wanted to see what happened over time, not because he was skeptical, but because the length or the ending of something does not necessarily determine whether it was genuine. What struck him most was that students simply sought the Lord without any expectation of what would follow, and the Lord showed up.
Brian named two ditches on either side of that question. One is thinking revival is entirely up to us if we check enough boxes. The other is a hands-off attitude that says God will do what he will do and leaves it there. He pointed to the Gospels, where Jesus was walking on the water intending to pass the disciples by, and it was their response that brought him into the boat. Revival, in this teaching, is not manufactured and it is not passive. It is something a church positions itself toward.
The deeper thread running under both messages is the call to stop asking God to conform to us and start conforming to him. That is where the series title comes from: if God's truth pets your fur the wrong way, you turn the cat around, not God. Brian drew that directly from Ezekiel 18, where Israel was complaining that God was not being fair, and God's answer was that he is not the one who needs to change. Brian says, "The leadership of Jesus in the days ahead will be less complicated, but more costly." That is the shape revival takes at Tribe: not a program or an event, but a people who are genuinely, sometimes painfully, turning toward God rather than waiting for him to meet them where they already are.
Taught from Ezekiel 18:23-32 · 2 Kings 5:1-15 · Hebrews 12:1 · John 16:33 · Psalm 34:1-8
“In the days ahead, the leadership of Jesus will be less complicated, but it will be more costly.”
From Turn Your Cat Around
The passage taught · 2 Kings 5:1-15
1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”
4 Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- March 6, 2023 Turn Your Cat Around Brian Hunter walks Tribe through 2 Kings 5, showing how Naaman's pride nearly cost him his healing and why letting go of the how, where, and what-ifs still matters today.
- February 20, 2023 Turn the Cat Around Week 1 - Turn and Live A Wyoming congregation wrestles with Ezekiel 18, the Asbury revival, and what it costs to stop asking God to change and turn your own heart around instead.