Deji Okegbile

JUSTICE OSINUGA @ 65: Celebrating Wisdom, Integrity in the Courtroom, and Compassion from the Pulpit.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Sep 15, 2025 | Events |

We celebrate The Hon. Justice Elizabeth Oluwatosin Osinuga, FCIArb, MICMC, MCIArb (UK), one of the models and truly exceptional women, on her 65th birthday, who embodies a unique dual role of wisdom in the courtroom and compassion from the pulpit. Justice Osinuga’s commitment to justice and her devotion to serving others through both spiritual guidance and legal counsel are not just an inspiration to us all but describe her consistent lifestyle, her uncompromising convictions, and her clear vision that drives her. To our beloved judge and priest on her 65th birthday, her lifestyle reminds us that we cannot separate...

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...

Matriarch Ruth Elton, ‘As Smallish in Stature but Giant in Faith’: Oldest Missionary to Nigeria, Dies At 91.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Aug 31, 2025 | General and Ecumenism, Missions and Evangelism |

Matriarch Ruth Ometere Elton, born on September 7, 1934, was the only child of Pa Sydney Granville Elton (Pa Elton), a foremost evangelist and Area Superintendent of the Apostolic Church of Nigeria in charge of Ilesa, Ekiti, Akoko, Kabba, now in Kogi State, then, under Prophet Joseph Ayo Babalola. Matriarch Elton was brought to Nigeria in 1937, at age two and a half years. In one of her interviews, Matriarch Elton, founder of Coming Kingdom Outreach, Ilesa, explained that her father came in February 1937, and at that time, we were told that no Oyinbo person was in Nigeria,...

Leaders’ opposition to Jesus: Souls, greater than the Sabbath.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Aug 27, 2025 | Missions and Evangelism |

The lectionary gospel reading from Luke 13 is a missional account of opposition to Jesus’ healing of a woman with an infirmity for 18 years on the Sabbath (Lk 13:10-17). Bearing in mind the multiple missional layers to the meaning of this story, it resonates with men and women going through the church motions without genuine movement, much like the synagogue leaders. Jesus Christ encountered criticism, grumbling and plotting from different groups because He was seen as a threat to the religious and political hierarchy, and because He exposed sin. A good example is the opposition and accusation of...