Month: October 2020

HIS EMINENCE MAKINDE @77, 7 Years after Retirement: ‘ASABA ORDINIS’ – CORPORATE EPISKOPE’S RESPONSE TO METHODIST MISSIONAL ECCLESIOLOGY.

HIS EMINENCE MAKINDE @77, 7 Years after Retirement: ‘ASABA ORDINIS’ – CORPORATE EPISKOPE’S RESPONSE TO METHODIST MISSIONAL ECCLESIOLOGY.

Posted by | Oct 10, 2020 | , , |

His Eminence Dr Sunday Ola Makinde, a product of ‘Asaba Ordinis’ and the last episcopal nominee of the Patriarch of Nigerian Methodist Episcopacy, His Pre-Eminence Professor Bolaji Idowu to retire, points us to Methodist corporate episkope not just as hierarchical structure but as a missional theology, practice and oversight. ‘Asaba Ordinis’ is based on cultural meaning and way of approaching faith and expressing it through different creeds and liturgical customs. The underlying principle and theology about ‘Asaba Ordinis’ is to renew the study,  the worship, the liturgy and development in the Nigerian Methodist understanding and practice of episcopacy initiated...

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PAPA AND MAMA ADEYEMO: KNIGHTS WE NEVER HAD: SAINTS WE ARE CELEBRATING.

PAPA AND MAMA ADEYEMO: KNIGHTS WE NEVER HAD: SAINTS WE ARE CELEBRATING.

Posted by | Oct 8, 2020 | , |

I received the news of Baba Adeyemo’s wife transition from my beloved mum Yetunde Baiyewu couple of weeks ago with joy that Mama has gone to be with with her husband and together in the bosom of their Saviour. Baba Adeyemo died in 2011. Thanks to God and all the children of Baba and Mama, especially Pastor Diran Adeyemo for the care given to mama since Baba’s ascension nine years ago. The testimonies about Baba and Mama reminds us of their fervour that ‘exceed the natural strength of the most robust.’ Baba and Mama Adeyemo both of William Memorial...

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Faith to be Saved and to be Healed!

Faith to be Saved and to be Healed!

Posted by | Oct 7, 2020 | , |

They … fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:  And there they preached the gospel. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:  The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of...

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ADEDIRAN, A PRINCELY PRINCE AND MANLINESS WITH GRACE

ADEDIRAN, A PRINCELY PRINCE AND MANLINESS WITH GRACE

Posted by | Oct 7, 2020 | |

There is no man that has power over the Spirit to retain the Spirit; neither has the power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war – Ecc 8:8. “A sparrow cannot fall without your father,” much less a prince. The tears of royalty cannot melt the power of the great enemy called death when permission is given him. The angels looked down from heaven one night. They searched for miles afar. And deep within the distance they could see a shining prince. The ascension of Prince Adediran Adeyokunnu at a time of life...

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Parable of Inclusion: A Call to Radical Exclusivity.

Parable of Inclusion: A Call to Radical Exclusivity.

Posted by | Oct 6, 2020 | , , |

In the book of Isaiah chapter 5, ‘Song of the Vineyard,’ we learnt about the house of Israel and the people of Judah, God’s pleasant planting to whom Isaiah spoke the prophecy and compared to a disappointing vineyard. Despite the love and care of the Owner, produces only wild grapes (Is 5:1-7). To bear good grapes as inclusive ‘branches of the vine,’ we have the options to accept the Lord’s rule, or to reject it, self – inclusive exclusion, and become a disappointing vineyard like the house of Israel and the people of Judah. To be a part of...

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