What does Tribe teach about stuck in a rut?
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 being stuck in a rut starts with an honest acknowledgment that ruts are not accidental. Brian Hunter preached from the story of Moses, who had spent forty years leading the same flock over the same pastures before a burning bush appeared in the middle of his ordinary routine. Brian's point was that the rut is not a neutral place to wait. It is the exact condition God tends to interrupt, and the encounter you are hoping for may already be waiting just inside the disruption you most want to avoid. As Brian put it, "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 two Bible passages Brian put side by side, Exodus 3 and Mark 6, both turn on the same hinge. Moses says he will turn aside to look. The disciples, as a member of the congregation pointed out, are nearly passed by because Jesus was not forcing an encounter. In both cases, the person who meets God is the one who moves toward the unusual thing rather than retreating to the familiar. Brian described this pattern as a kind of Holy Spirit judo move, the idea that being thrown off your routine creates an opening that comfort and predictability rarely do. He asked why God would wire us to instinctively avoid disruption and then consistently place himself right inside it, and he held that question open rather than resolving it neatly.
The harder edge of the teaching came from the disciples themselves. They had watched miracle after miracle, eaten the loaves, and still nearly missed Jesus walking on the water because their expectations had hardened. Brian used that to press on whether someone could be so settled in their idea of how God behaves that they would fail to recognize something real he was doing right in front of them. The rut, in that sense, is not just a habit of schedule or routine. It is a habit of the heart, and Brian says, "God loves to encounter us in the disruption."
Taught from Exodus 3:1-12 · Exodus 3:3 · Mark 6:45-52
“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.
- August 25, 2024 Resisting The Rut A pastor and congregation in Jackson Hole dig into Moses at the burning bush and Jesus walking on water to explore what we miss when we stay stuck in a rut.