What does Tribe teach about truth?
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 truth starts with a single practical question: whatever you believe about any subject, is the hook you are hanging that belief on strong enough to bear its weight? Brian introduced a hat rack as a way of making that concrete. Every belief a person holds is like a hat, and the hook represents the narrative or authority you use to justify it. The problem, he argued, is that people almost never examine why they hang a belief where they do. Usually it is because their parents hung theirs there, or because social media made that hook look appealing, or because everyone around them is doing the same. None of that has anything to do with whether the hook is actually trustworthy.
Truth, Brian argued, has to be objective and transcendent by definition, meaning it is true whether or not anyone believes it or acknowledges it. A hook that cannot bear weight will eventually break, no matter how attractive it looked going in. He said, "Any belief that we hold that doesn't conform to reality disconnects us from the fabric of God's created order," and that disconnection is visible in a lot of what is happening around us. Isaiah 22 and Ezekiel 15 both gave biblical language to the same idea: hooks that look structural but have no real integrity will fail under load.
The teaching landed on Jesus as the one hook whose strength is sourced in something beyond human opinion or social pressure. Working through Isaiah 22 and Revelation 3:8, Brian showed that the text itself points to Jesus as the greater nail driven firmly in place, the one who holds the key of David permanently. Brian put it plainly: "God's hook is always the most reliable hook you can ever hang any belief you have in the entire universe." He also drew a careful distinction between the hook of Jesus himself and nearby hooks that are easy to confuse with it, a gifted personality, a popular theology, a denomination. Those human hooks break. The hook of Jesus, he said, is the one people often get talked off before it ever has a chance to bear any weight at all.
Taught from Isaiah 22:22-24 · John 14:6 · Revelation 3:8 · Ezekiel 15:1-5 · Psalm 119
“God's hook is always the most reliable hook you can ever hang any belief you have in the entire universe.”
From Hang Your Hat on the Biggest Hook
The passage taught · 1 John 2:15
15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- June 17, 2024 Hang Your Hat on the Biggest Hook Brian Hunter uses a coat rack and hats to explore how our beliefs need to hang on hooks strong enough to bear the weight of truth, rooted in God's word.
- June 16, 2024 Hang Your Hat on God's Truth A Wyoming pastor uses a hat rack and a nail in the wall to explore what it means to hang your beliefs on truth that can actually bear the weight.
Mentioned along the way
- June 23, 2024 Sex, Money, and the Bible Brian Hunter uses a hat-rack analogy to explore what we anchor our beliefs about the Bible, money, and sex to, and whether those anchors can actually hold the weight.