Month: June 2022

ARISE AND PRAY FOR METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Methodist Conference suggests a means of grace, accountability to God and to one another under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Just as the Conference for the early Methodists was about spiritual formation, encouraging people to serve and follow Jesus faithfully, let us pray that the delegates may be example of faithful disciples of Jesus Christ in our local churches.  One thing remains constant with Methodism, we never lack initiatives to advance the Church and efficiency for the gospel. In 2007, the initiative tagged ‘Mapping a Way Forward: Regrouping for Mission ‘challenged each and every Methodist circuit  and local...

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SIR (DR) ‘YEMI SANYA: AN “UNFORGETTABLE KNIGHT,” GRASSROOTS METHODIST CHRISTIAN SOLDIER.

This week, we celebrate and commend Sir (Dr) Adeyemi Olufunmilayo Sanya to God’s arm of mercy, the joy of everlasting peace, and into the glorious company of the saints in light through Jesus Christ our Lord. Writing this tribute to my dear father and mentor is one of the most difficult task ever in recent time. To write and refer to Sir (Dr) Sanya, a Knight of John Wesley (KJW), in the past is so difficult for me and many others. Sir (Dr) Sanya in no doubt was one of the very silent Nigeria foremost entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and grassroots...

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METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (3).

Indigenised to decolonise, the Nigerian Methodism at 180 is a call to personal and corporate renewal which is Bible-based and prayer-focused. Indigenised to decolonise, the Nigerian Methodism at 180 and 60 years of autonomy is about celebrating the heritage of Scriptural holiness, the Authority of Scripture, centrality of the Cross, field preaching and other accompanying missional expressions of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for everyone. Colonialism continue to marginalise and exclude African perspectives and voices thereby creating and promoting the problem of misrepresentation, misinterpretation, and abuse of the continent and others. Indigenised to decolonise, the Nigerian Methodism at 180...

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METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (2).

The Acts of the Apostles is a missional progress of the gospel of Jesus Christ from Jerusalem to Rome. The missional milestones from Samaria, Antioch, Cyprus, across Anatolia and Greece spread westward through the Ethiopian eunuch.[1] African churches, using the words of Professor Andrew Walls, ‘brings into focus the period when Western Europe was converted to Christianity.’ According to Walls, ‘we have a tendency to forget about this period, to jump from Augustine to Luther and forget about Bede and Gregory of Tours. During this period Christian missionary had to explain Christianity to the inhabitants of Europe in light...

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‘On Track to Die Out…’: The “Mother Church” of World Methodism learning from ‘its Offspring?’

One of my books, Stop the Funeral: Reverse Methodists Decline, published in 2017 was inspired by the Rev Loraine Mellor’s 2017 Presidential inaugural address. Mellor’s address resonates with the fear of John Wesley. For me, as a student of John Wesley’s writings and practices, his prophetic words near the end of his life is fulfilling a prophetic concern today. Wesley said, “I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without...

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