What does Tribe teach about why jesus came?
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 why Jesus came starts not in Bethlehem but on the first page of Genesis. Both Pastor Brian and Colson, one of the leaders in Tribe's young adults ministry, have made the same central point from different angles: the birth of Jesus is the arrival of promises God had been making for thousands of years. Brian says, "The story of Christmas begins all the way back in a garden," where God created humanity for relationship, humanity chose independence, and sin entered with it, bringing war, sickness, death, and a permanent separation from God's family that no person can fix on their own. Jesus came because that separation needed a rescuer, and no human being could be that rescuer.
Colson traced that same thread through the whole Hebrew Bible, pointing to Genesis 3:15 as the first Christmas promise, where God says an offspring will come who will bruise the head of the serpent. He walked through Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David to show a consistent pattern: God keeps choosing the person you would not choose, and he keeps making covenants that point forward to something larger. The covenant with David in 2 Samuel 7, that through his offspring a kingdom would be established forever, became a pivot point in that telling. Pastor Brian read from Isaiah 9, which named the coming child Wonderful One, Extraordinary Strategist, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, and Prince of Peace, and noted that the same passage says the Lord Yahweh's passion for his people will ensure it is finished.
What both messages land on is the scope of who Jesus came for. Brian says, "God always goes one step further than what you expect," and his point was that Jesus was given first to Israel and then to the whole world. Jesus lived without sin, died a criminal's death, shed his blood to pay for sin, and rose again so that God and humanity could be reunited as family. As Colson put it, "The same God who was born in a manger in Bethlehem to a poor teenage Jew is the same God who seeks you out and loves you."
Taught from Genesis 3:15 · Isaiah 9:6-7 · 2 Samuel 7:8-16 · Luke 2:1-20 · Matthew 1:21
“The same God who was born in a manger in Bethlehem to a poor teenage Jew is the same God who seeks you out and loves you.”
From Christmas： The Whole Story
The passage taught · 1 Samuel 16:6-13
6 When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”
7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”
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Messages that go deeper
- December 29, 2025 Christmas： The Whole Story A young adults leader walks Tribe church through the entire biblical story to show why Christmas begins on page one of Genesis, not in a manger.
- December 25, 2025 Tribe Christmas Eve Service - Town Square A Christmas Eve message from Jackson Hole about why the story of Christmas begins not in Bethlehem but in a garden, and what the gift of the Messiah means for everyone.