Two buzzwords have been niggling at me recently. The first is “climate breakdown,” much used by Chris Packham to pretend that we, and not God, are in control of the weather and have completely spoiled it – but it’s a pleasant June day and the birds are singing anyway. The second is “spiritual breakthrough,” a term that has begun to be bandied about prodigally in prayers even at my own church, though I’ve noticed it occurring ubiquitously elsewhere for a year or two. You can be sure that when a non-biblical buzzword comes into fashion, somebody has been monkeying around with the theology, and that is true in spades for “breakthrough,” as I’ll demonstrate.
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