What does Tribe teach about worship as warfare?
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 worship as warfare comes out of a live moment in a Sunday service. During a time of congregational worship, Brian heard the Lord speak the phrase "weaponized worship." He reached for the image of a modern munition that can fall from the sky and simply make a hole in the ground, or, if armed at the right moment, unleash its full explosive power. The same is true of worship, he said. It can be sincere and moving and still not yet armed. But if asked, God will weaponize it so that praise offered in Jackson Hole can have a real effect far beyond the room.
That teaching was grounded in Isaiah's portrait of a people who had kept the outward forms of religion while their hearts drifted. Brian read from Isaiah 1 and Isaiah 29, where God says the offerings and festivals disgust him and that the people honor him with their lips while their hearts are far from him. The image he used was flipping a light switch out of muscle memory even after the bulb has burned out. The motion is there, the habit is there, but nothing is behind it. Worship as warfare, then, is the opposite of that: it is praise that is awake, present, and deliberately offered with the expectation that it will do something.
The same service moved the room into extended silent intercession for hostages taken into Gaza, with Brian reading from Psalm 91 over the silence. He told the congregation this may not be a conversation happening on your team or around your dinner table, but it is the conversation happening around the table of heaven right now, and there is a seat there for anyone willing to pull up a chair. Prayer and Scripture were held alongside worship as active weapons, not passive habits.
Taught from Isaiah 62:1-12 · Isaiah 1:11-14 · Isaiah 29:13 · Psalm 91 · Romans 10:17
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From For Zion's Sake I Will Not Rest
The passage taught · Isaiah 1:11-14
11 “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.
14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
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The messages that teach on it
- October 23, 2023 For Zion's Sake I Will Not Rest Brian Hunter leads Tribe through Isaiah 62, praying for 203 hostages in Gaza, and exploring how God refines and pursues his people with faithful, unwavering love.
Mentioned along the way
- January 8, 2024 Leave the Past Behind You Brian Hunter walks through Luke 24 and the road to Emmaus, asking one question: are you so stuck in what was that you are missing what Jesus is doing right now?