What does Tribe teach about uncomfortable 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 uncomfortable faith starts with a simple observation from Scripture: God's most significant invitations tend to arrive inside disruption, not comfort. Brian Hunter has spent time in Exodus 24:7-11, where Moses, Aaron, and seventy elders make a serious climb up Mount Sinai, carrying food, gaining the rough vertical equivalent of two Snow Kings, before they ever sit down to eat a covenant meal in the presence of God. The inconvenience of the climb is not incidental. It is part of the invitation. Brian frames the whole Sinai sequence as a kind of wedding, with the law as the covenant contract, the people's vow of obedience as the pledge, and the meal on the mountain as the celebration. That structure, he says, reflects what God is actually like: not an impersonal force, but a person who longs to be known in close relationship, and who meets people inside the hard thing rather than after it.
Psalm 23:5 holds much of this teaching together. Brian reads the line "you prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies" and sits with what it does and does not say. It does not say the feast comes when everything settles down. The feast and the enemies arrive together. Brian says immaturity grabs for the feast and the anointing while trying to avoid the enemies, while maturity begins to recognize that the two are often inseparable. He draws the same pattern from Daniel 3, where Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego only met a fourth man in the fire because they were thrown in, and from Acts 27, where Paul received an angelic visitation while a ship was being torn apart in a Mediterranean storm. The encounter comes inside the disruption, not on the other side of it.
For anyone sitting with a hard season right now, Brian's consistent word is to look for what God might be doing inside it rather than waiting for it to end. He puts it plainly: "Look for the invitation in the midst of disruption." The discomfort is not evidence that something has gone wrong. In the pattern Brian traces through Scripture, it is often exactly where the meal gets prepared.
Taught from Exodus 24:7-11 · Psalms 23:5 · Daniel 3 · Acts 27 · John 16:33
“The only thing that'll make you draw near to God and keep you away from sin is suffering.”
From The Feast on the Mountain
The passage taught · Acts 27
1 When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
2 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
3 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
4 Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
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Messages that go deeper
- November 10, 2025 The Feast on the Mountain Brian Hunter walks through Exodus 24, where 70 elders hiked Mount Sinai to dine with God, and draws out a simple challenge: look for God's invitation inside life's disruptions.
- November 9, 2025 Meal on the Mountain A sermon from Tribe Church in Jackson Hole exploring Exodus 24, where 70 elders dined with God on Sinai, and what it means to find God in life's disruptions.