What does Tribe teach about waiting on god?

At Tribe, the teaching on waiting on God starts with a single honest observation: waiting is not passive, and it is not easy. Brian Hunter has returned to Psalm 37:34 more than once as a guiding verse for the church, and each time he has pressed on what the Hebrew actually says. The phrase translated as 'put your hope in the Lord' pictures strands of rope being twisted together, faith and action and God's enabling wound into something that holds. 'Travel steadily along his path' carries the weight of watching, observing, and being on guard, not the stillness of someone sitting on their hands, but what Brian calls finish-line waiting, the kind that actually changes the person in the race. The promises of God, he has taught, are always guaranteed but not always automatic, and God almost always invites his people into the fulfillment of those promises rather than delivering them around us.

Brian is honest that this is hard, especially for someone wired as a visionary. He has said plainly that 'stay close' might be the hardest direction Tribe has ever had to run on, and the congregation has named the same friction, the sense of doing small things while wanting something larger. The teaching does not resolve that tension cheaply. Instead it draws a line between knowing God's deeds and knowing his character, using Moses as the example of someone who stayed in the tent long enough for it to show on his face. The practical shift Brian has offered is simple: instead of telling God what you need him to do, ask him what he wants you to know about him in the situation. He says, 'Sometimes it takes the Lord a long time to act suddenly,' and the congregation has had to sit with what that means for their own prayers and the life of the church.

The 1 Chronicles 17 story of David and the temple adds another layer. David had a genuine intention, possibly even a God-given one, and Nathan agreed with him immediately, yet God sent Nathan back that same night to correct the whole plan. The movement of that chapter, Brian has pointed out, is from David seated in his own palace and his own understanding to David seated before the Lord. That posture, seated before God rather than running ahead of him, is what Tribe returns to as the shape of faithful waiting.

Taught from Psalm 37:34 · Hebrews 11:32-34 · 1 Chronicles 17:1-16 · Psalm 103:7 · Psalm 37:7