Month: July 2022

If the Christian faith and the hope of the resurrection were real, and if the songs we Methodists knew so well were more than a mere comfort blanket (especially the one by John Ellerton with the words – MHB 975: ‘When the day of toil is done’), then death was also about vindication. Experiencing death in the hope of the resurrection made perfect sense to Sir Olusegun Ayodeji Sofunke, a Knight of John Wesley (KJW), vindicating his life, his ministry, and anticipating his ultimate hope in Jesus Christ. Indeed, his death was dead on arrival, hence his transition to...

Nigerian Methodism at 180, indigenised to decolonise hold forth the indigenous method as the largest hope to renew and grow the churches and reach the unreached across the world.[1] Indigenised to decolonise warns us about missional deviations, how we have lost our ways, sense of direction, and the essence of missions and leadership. The chief forces of the church are busy at useful tasks other than harvesting. Indigenised to decolonise corrects the deviations that in some vague way other religions confer salvation or love and hence their followers do not need Jesus as the Saviour, and the will to...