Month: September 2025

TRAPS AGAINST EVANGELISM! EXAMPLE OF JESUS AND THE PHARISEES AND LESSONS TODAY.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Sep 3, 2025 | Missions and Evangelism |

Jesus was invited to dinner at the home of a leader of the Pharisees. Jesus accepted the invitation just as many churches and organisations accommodate evangelism. The invitation highlights theological and missiological traps against evangelism. The Pharisees’ invitation suggests a domesticated mindset and practice of sharing love as a flawed theological and missiological trapdoor to date. The Pharisees’ open invitation was not without guided toleration and access to their prideful knowledge of the law and financial resources to organise a free meal. Pharisees do not give free meals; instead, they use people in the name of loving people. Theology...

Jesus’ Mission beyond Pharisees’ Mission and its Pharisaical Hypocrisy.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Sep 1, 2025 | Ministry and Prayer, Missions and Evangelism |

The reading from Luke 14 invites us to walk in the way and mission of Jesus. The narrative was arranged in the home of the ruler of the Pharisees to observe the Sabbath in a manner that would please God, and an invitation was extended to the teachers of the law. The Pharisees’ mission is not about Jesus’ mission and message of salvation, love, and inclusion, but a focus on their power and position to catch and discredit Jesus’ mission and authority in a legalistic error on the Sabbath. The Pharisees’ mission ‘unchecked by the Holy Spirit, turns brothers...