What does Tribe teach about step of faith?
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 a step of faith begins with the simple, unsettling observation that God rarely hands over the full plan. Working through the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8, Lissa Hunter pointed to the moment Philip was told to go south on the desert road and nothing more. He did not know who he would meet, how he would be provided for, or what the outcome would be. He simply went. Lissa pressed on that detail because she said it is exactly where most people get stuck, wanting steps three through ten before they will agree to take step one.
She also drew out something that can be easy to miss: what Philip was walking away from when he obeyed. Ministry in Samaria was working. People were being healed. It looked fruitful from the outside, and God asked him to leave it in order to meet one man on a desert road. That willingness to step away from something good, toward something unknown, was part of what made the obedience costly and real. Lissa noted that "success is not always the same thing as obedience," and that God sometimes uses what looks like a setback or a closed door to redirect people toward his actual purposes. As she put it, "God will use disappointments. He will use closed doors. He will use losses in our life."
Running underneath all of it was a word about preparation. Philip was chosen for practical, ordinary ministry work long before anything dramatic happened, and Lissa kept returning to that sequence. Character, she said, tends to come before calling. Smaller faithfulness opens the door to larger obedience. The step of faith being asked of someone today may not look significant from the outside, but the teaching at Tribe is that God is building something through it, and the invitation is to take the one step in front of you without waiting for the whole road to appear.
Taught from Acts 8:26-40 · Acts 8:1-5 · Isaiah 56 · Luke 16:10 · Acts 6:1-7
“Character often comes before calling.”
From Character Before Calling
The passage taught · Acts 6:1-7
1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
2 The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
3 Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- June 15, 2026 Character Before Calling Lissa Hunter walks through Acts 8 and Philip's obedience to show why taking one faithful step matters more than knowing the whole plan God has for your life.
- June 14, 2026 God's Calling A look at Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8, and what simple, step-by-step obedience to God's voice looks like in everyday life.