MIKE BREEN: 3DM LIFESHAPES AND MONASTICISM ARE DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

I have previously written on Hubpages warning about 3DM Lifeshapes and The Order of Mission (TOM). TOM was implemented at Holy Trinity Church in Leicester some time ago.

Mike Breen is a self appointed "Apostle"  and "Senior Guardian" of TOM who peddles these doctrines of demons in Jesus' name.  He has devised a system he calls 3DM whereby eight geometric shapes are used as a prism to interpret the Bible in order to “create culture, create language, create vocabulary, create a culture of discipling leaders.”  Breen claims to provide “immersion experiences in the learning community.” 

3DM appeals to the flesh, but it is nothing but a cleverly devised myth (2 Peter 1/16). One definition of myth is: a belief or set of beliefs, often unproven or false, that have accrued around a person, phenomenon, or institution. http://www.thefreedictionary.com  Breen uses 3DM in conjunction with TOM which is monasticism.

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. (2 Peter 1/16)

TOM and 3DM are experiential and extra biblical - they go beyond what is written and have fooled some so called “leaders” in the church. Breen's system is rooted in pride and is very damaging:

I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favour of one against another. (1 Corinthians 4/6)

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. (2 John 1/9)

Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar. (Proverbs 30/6; Revelation 22/18))

Does Mike Breen know better than God? His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence..... (2 Peter 1/3)

This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments (precepts) of men. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (1 Corinthians 1/25)

I have received an important confirmation from a member of a church in Nebraska USA below:  

2/22/2014

Just to give you an idea of what happened in our church, Bethany Lutheran in Elkhorn, Nebraska, USA

Our pastors Mark & Wenda Fry (husband and wife) connected with Mike Breen in Arizona at a mega church there. They brought him to our church and began the indoctrination of our congregation.

First they brought in Life Shapes. Most of us didn’t get this or decided we already were participating in serving the people around us – low income, poor, hungry, etc. Then huddles were introduced, and didn’t appeal to a great deal of us but Mark & Wenda kept pushing this.

Apparently Mike Breen was fired at the church in Arizona, and his friend, Garett Robinson was not far behind. The rumor we got was that when Breen was fired, the Immigration officials were on hand but somehow he got around that. We think that the Fry’s may have helped financially in his legal battle with immigration. Then Garret Robinson came to our church, to be a “worship leader”. He took over the entire service, and the pastors did very little. The pastors pushed out our wonderful music director and put Garrett in his place. The performances of Mr. Robinson got more and more like an act. He wanted the congregation on their feet for most of the service, and encouraged kneeling. Our church has no kneelers. Mike Breen came in for a service and was trying to convince folks he was a healer, and encouraged Wenda Fry to take classes to do this. Being a Lutheran Church, people were not falling for this.

Mike Breen convinced our pastors that they shouldn’t pay people to work at the church, they should be all volunteers so that more money could go to missions (3DM as is turned out). Our children’s programs were being discontinued, services with a choir were a joke – Garrett Robinson had the music he was playing on his guitar so loud, the choir couldn’t be heard. The music in general was being played at a very loud level, where you couldn’t even hear the people giving communion even standing a foot away from them.

Garrett and Mark Fry gave one service for younger people on a Sunday evening and made the remark that this was a 3DM church, if you didn’t like it, go somewhere else.

The older people and many others were leaving our church or just not going to the point where what was a 1200 plus membership down to 600. The Fry’s had handpicked the church council so they were going along with this madness. Finally a petition was circulated and a church meeting called and the area Bishop was asked to come and accept the petition. The petition called for an election of council members, which was done and all the old were replaced. Then the Bishop oversaw meetings where synod officials and church members got together to discuss what was wrong and what needed to be done.

Finally the Fry’s left voluntarily and Garrett Robinson left also. Mr. Robinson sent the membership a scathing letter. He said in it that he had planned to train “worship leaders” in our church and he would be praying for us. It was never clear what Mr. Robinson’s credentials were, musically or religiously.

The Fry’s took 30 to 50 families with them when they left, and they seem to have lost about half of that number but are still trying to carry on Mike Breen’s message. I have checked the 3DM website every so often and it seems they are not charging the $30,000 a year to join this movement. Our church paid out $72,000 to Mr. Breen before it was stopped.

I had written letters to Immigration, the State Department and Homeland Security complaining about his “fraud”. The first time I read the oath the followers had to take to follow Mike Breen, the guardian I was sick to my stomach. As far as I was concerned it was a CULT, and there were many others of the same mind.

I appreciated your article as I agreed with what you wrote. Thank you. People need to be aware of false prophets such as these.

UPDATE: 3DM is now known as 5Q with Alan Hirsch, Cairn Network. Kairos network.

For further information see:  http://www.schooleyfiles.com/2013/11/mike-breen-and-building-discipling.html

Links to my previous posts:

http://eliora.hubpages.com/hub/HOLY-TRINITY-CHURCH-LEICESTER
http://eliora.hubpages.com/hub/3DM-LIFESHAPES-HIDDEN-IN-PLAIN-SIGHT-IS-MIKE-BREEN-REALLY-SAYING-WEARE666