Initial Thoughts on Mike Breen’s Proposal to Change the Missional Conversation (http://weare3dm.com/mikebreen/we-are-3dm/why-the-missional-conversation-must-change/?utm_content=buffer79af7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer) Mike Breen’s blog “Why the Missional Conversation Must Change” puts into more popular form the core of John Flett’s scholarly analysis God as Witness . He argues that “Missio Dei” needs to become “Missio Trinitatis” to confront the strong individualism of western culture. This individualism, claims Breen, has reduced the conception of Missio Dei to an individualized “God” which in turn results in producing individual missional Christians who are confused and ill-prepared to be witnesses in the world. So, Breen says, we must recover the triunty of the one God, God as community, and allow this understanding and experience of God to define our sense of mission and transform us as a missional people. Flet...
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