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THE WORLD AS MY PARISH!

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 30, 2025 | Methodism |

“I look upon all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation” – John Wesley. At a point in time, John Wesley realised that ‘the Church of England was stuck. It had somehow lost touch with the Holy Spirit.’ This was the genesis of Wesley’s renewal movement from church to church preaching against sin and dead religion hence, he was kicked out into open fields that resulted...

College Campus (Holy Club), Missional leadership Development Pipeline’: MANDATE Beyond Rectangular Box of Wood and Nails.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 28, 2025 | Methodism, Missions and Evangelism |

At a time when many denominations have lost engagement with their cultural moment through their inability to communicate the Mandate of spreading scriptural holiness to this secular age, the 16th annual International Conference of the Methodist Campus Fellowship (MCF), Methodist Church Nigeria points us to the college campus as a critical way to engage the culture locally and globally. One of the major problems in global Methodism today are those who are content to pound the pulpit, forgetting that ‘If all the world sees as being the church is a rectangular box of wood and nails with cold, preachy...

THE GADARENES GENERATION OF ‘PIG WORSHIPPERS’: Preference for Swine over the Ministry of Jesus

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 23, 2025 | Missions and Evangelism |

Our lectionary reading in Luke 8:26-39 provides us with an understanding of the importance of the deliverance of our soul and our eternity in Jesus Christ in contrast to a generation of ‘pig worshipers’ who worshipped this temporary world. The lectionary recounts the story of Jesus casting a legion of demons out of a man who was untameable in the region of Gadara. In this story, with parallel accounts found in the other two synoptic Gospels—Matthew 8:28-34 and Mark 5:1-20—Jesus encounters a man living in a graveyard, in chains, who refuses to wear clothes and is controlled by demons....

Celebrating Father’s Day and Trinity: Recovering Biblical Fatherhood Against Attacks on Family.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 16, 2025 | General and Ecumenism |

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love, he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved (Eph. 1:3-6). The Bible is clear that God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,...

The Urgency of the Great Commission in Modern Times: Hope for Survivalist Churches and Denominations.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 4, 2025 | Missions and Evangelism |

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in Heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age – Matt 28:18-20. Jesus Christ is coming again. He is coming to harvest His Church home. Sorrow and sighing shall be no more. The dead in Christ shall arise. Sadly, the Church, though very busy with its settled, inherited routine, continues to ‘show it...