Further Thoughts on Mike Breen’s “The Missional Conversation Must Change”
Yesterday I summarized Mike Breen’s that the rampant individualism of western culture has theologically diluted the Christian idea of God as triune to effectively a Unitarian deity. This god cannot generate a community of faith because he himself knows no community. This view of God has effectively whittled the retrieval of the “Missio Dei” (Mission of God) movement of recent years down to individualized “missional Christians” rather a missional church. Breen pleads for a theological renewal of Trinitarian theology and a deeper experience or participating in the triune life of God in Christ by the power of the Spirit. An academic renewal of Trinitarian theology has been going on but it has not effectively reached the good folks in the pews (or, likely, a fair number of pastors either). Clearly work remains to be done at this point. Breen’s identification of individualism is right but too narrow in my judgment. I suspect its one element of a mutually...