Author: Deji Okegbile

The Urgency of the Harvest: Beyond Museum Maintenance to a Missionary Church.

The Urgency of the Harvest: Beyond Museum Maintenance to a Missionary Church.

Posted by | Jul 7, 2025 | |

Contemporary theological education has been oriented primarily towards the pastoral care of congregations, thereby reducing Christ’s ministry to a functionalist definition and practice. Jesus Christ, in the Gospel reading from Luke 10, re-echoes the Church’s mission to the world. Jesus Christ brings to the fore the missional character of the Church’s ministry by sending His followers out with the urgency of the harvest, due to His compassion for those who are lost. The missional insight of global Christianity for Christian ministry is not just about the arts and skills of professional church leadership, or upgrading both the professional performance and...

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The Church beyond Popular Polls: A Call to Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ.

The Church beyond Popular Polls: A Call to Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ.

Posted by | Jul 1, 2025 | , |

For I’m building a people of power  And I’m making a people of praise  That will move through this land by My Spirit  And will glorify My precious name  Chorus Build Your Church, Lord. Make us strong, Lord.  Join our hearts, Lord, through Your Son  Make us one, Lord in Your Body  In the kingdom of Your Son. Build Your Church, Lord. Make us strong, Lord.  Join our hearts, Lord, through Your Son  Make us one, Lord in Your Body  In the kingdom of Your Son  Jesus is not interested in taking a popularity poll but in building up...

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THE WORLD AS MY PARISH!

THE WORLD AS MY PARISH!

Posted by | Jun 30, 2025 | |

“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...

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

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

Posted by | Jun 28, 2025 | , |

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...

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

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

Posted by | Jun 23, 2025 | |

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....

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