Month: July 2022

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (5).

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (5).

Posted by | Jul 16, 2022 | |

Indigenised to decolonise is about the spread of Methodism through personal encounter with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Indigenised to decolonise beyond critical biblical scholarship is a renewing biblical scholarship with an eye to human transformation. Beyond ‘the current situation in which the theologies produced in the West dictate the goals, tasks, and methods of Christian studies in the non-Western world,’ indigenised to decolonise is ‘to emphasize the necessity for local Christians to initiate a reorientation of the way we conduct theological studies in a specific locality.’[1] Indigenised to decolonise not only challenges mere ‘cognitive understanding of the Christian...

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Omooba (Princess) Mary Mojisola Edebiri: A Portrait of a Godly Wife and Mother.

Omooba (Princess) Mary Mojisola Edebiri: A Portrait of a Godly Wife and Mother.

Posted by | Jul 14, 2022 | |

After almost a year, I just got to know about the transition of a beloved mother, Omooba (Princess) Mary Mojisola Olubunmilola Edebiri nee Awolesi today. Thanks to social media for enabling one of Mum Edebiri’s daughter, Edugie, to connect with me after 18 years. In 1993, God connected me with Mum Edebiri as members of Methodist Evangelical Movement (MEM), Wesley Cathedral, Olowogbowo, Lagos. Wesley Cathedral, Olowogbowo remains one of my early centres of ministerial formation under Most Rev Luke Odubanjo and Most Rev Muyiwa Odejayi. At Wesley Cathedral God blessed me with numerous families till date. Mum Edebiri was...

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Missional Map to Eternal Life: Jesus Christ, the Good Samaritan.

Missional Map to Eternal Life: Jesus Christ, the Good Samaritan.

Posted by | Jul 12, 2022 | |

True eternal life begins with a personal relationship and journey with Jesus Christ (Rom 6:23). A man or a woman created in God’s image for abundant life has a choice to make between the wages of sin, eternal death, and the gift of God, eternal life (Gen 2-3). The Gospel of John gives us a definition of Christ’s gift of eternal life: “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (Jn 17:3). Sin is a barrier to eternal life hence, the need to accept Jesus’ forgiveness...

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METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (4).

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (4).

Posted by | Jul 9, 2022 | , , , |

Indigenised to decolonise calls the people called Methodist to renewal and repentance as God’s instruments as we were in Wesley’s day. Failure to learn from John Wesley’s experience and his fear is to decline in his Movement and to miss missional essentials about his identity, leadership, spread, history, and theology. Through Wesley’s experience, we know that the true mission field is not abroad preaching to the “heathen.” In 1736, John and Charles, accompanied General Oglethorpe from England to Georgia to oversee the local church and fulfil their dream of witnessing their faith with Native Americans. The hope of reaching...

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CELEBRATING A CHRISTIAN HOME: APPRECIATING MATRIARCH ARINOLA SANYA: A PROFESSOR OF PROFESSORS AND EXAMPLE OF PHILANTHROPIST’S WIFE.

CELEBRATING A CHRISTIAN HOME: APPRECIATING MATRIARCH ARINOLA SANYA: A PROFESSOR OF PROFESSORS AND EXAMPLE OF PHILANTHROPIST’S WIFE.

Posted by | Jul 2, 2022 | , |

In an age when business/career families, homes and marriages are common and challenging, Sir Dr Yemi Sanya and Lady Prof Arinola Sanya provides us a model of a Christian home. A former President of United State of America, Abraham Lincoln rightly declared that ‘the strength of a nation is the home of its people.’ This statement about the importance of home resonates with the secret of the numerous testimonies and tributes said and written about Sir Dr Yemi Sanya’s legacies. Sir Dr Sanya first hung his heart to God, his and children in order to open his hands to...

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