What does Tribe teach about trusting god with money?

At Tribe, the teaching on trusting God with money is grounded in remembering what God has actually done. In the message built around Psalm 78, Brian Hunter used a personal story to show that memory is not sentiment, it is something you fight with. He and Lissa moved their young family from Alpine to Tulsa in 2007 so he could attend school, and one month they came up $750 short with no way to close the gap. A reward came in for a tropical bird that had landed on their property, and Brian says, "The reward was for 750. The exact amount that we were short that month." The point was not that God always works that precisely, but that when he does, you write it down, you tell it to your kids, you treat it as a weapon for the next time the numbers do not add up.

The Psalm 78 thread carried that further. Brian drew attention to the warriors of Ephraim who turned back in battle even though they were fully armed, and traced the reason to two verses later: they forgot. The same logic applies to financial fear. You can be equipped with every practical tool and still retreat if you have lost hold of what God has already done. The miracle of water from a rock was not designed to be one clever option among many. It was designed to be undeniable, something no human ingenuity could explain away, so that the people would have no choice but to attribute it to God.

A passing thread in the resurrection series reinforced the same ground from a different angle. Brian pointed to faithfulness with money as one of the daily men-against-men races that God uses to train people for larger responsibilities. The small decisions are not filler, they are preparation. Taken together, what Tribe teaches is that trusting God with money means holding tightly to specific remembered moments of his provision and letting those moments do real work in the next season of scarcity.

Taught from Psalm 78:1-16 · 1 Corinthians 10:4