Deji Okegbile

CHAPLAINCY, A MISSION AGENCY

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jul 26, 2017 | Missions and Evangelism |

ADDRESS/REPORT BY THE CHAPLAIN TO THE GENERAL MEETING, NIGERIAN METHODISTS CHAPLAINCY, UK/IRELAND ON SUNDAY 23rd JULY, 2017 AT CHIGWELL RETREAT CENTRE. THEME: GOD’S WORD, OUR GUIDE Mission purpose: The Chaplaincy is a renewal and mission platform/agent within the British Conference seeking to equip and nurture Nigerian Methodists and other Christians in their discipleship and engage them to enrich Methodism in UK and beyond by enabling members to integrate and use their gifts within their local churches and fellowships. Introduction: To God be the glory for His amazing grace over us since our last Conference in Rainham. Let...

WESLEYAN RAINHAM: A Way Forward

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jul 12, 2017 | Methodism |

‘In the future, when your children ask you,’What do these stones mean to you?’ you should tell them …’ Josh 4:6-7 The celebration of Rainham Methodist Church 90th anniversary offers us opportunities to involve the church family and the community in discovering, retelling, and sharing the church’s history, mission, evangelism, renewal, and vision especially to our children. In Joshua 4 we read about the purpose contemplated by the conveyance of the twelve stones to Gilgal. The reflections is that the stones might be a standing/spiritual record to posterity of the miraculous passage of the Jordan or Rainham. The heart...

STOP THE FUNERAL: REVERSE METHODIST DECLINE

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 30, 2017 | Methodism |

‘Our future does not depend on upgrading premises, tinkering with structures, devising new strategies either local or Connexional. We will have a future when prayer rather than projects saturate our agenda. We will have a future when presbyters drag themselves away from their computers and get out and talk to people, helping them to pray, discover God in the world and talk about it. We will have a future when Methodists, who long to love God with all their heart, mind and soul feel the transforming power of the Spirit’ – Rev Tom Stuckey, a past President of the...

FATHERS, BRANCHES OF THE HEAVENLY FATHER

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 18, 2017 | Ministry and Prayer |

“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none” (Ezk 22:30) The greatest need in the world today is for fathers, good fathers being a regenerated man in the image of our heavenly Father, functioning as a regenerated man, taking responsibility as a regenerated man, thinking like a regenerated man, acting like a regenerated man, working and walking with the heavenly Father as the True Vine. Fathers as branches of the Heavenly Father goes...

LIVING THE TRINITY

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 11, 2017 | Ministry and Prayer |

The narrative of Donald Trump presidency in American politics, the ongoing Arewa/Biafra declarations in Nigeria, and the background to our hung Parliament result of the General election in Britain speaks to the depth and influential nature of our global divisions, hate, and fears. The world is under a siege of known and unknown fears hence, the need to bind up the broken-hearted, and to bring justice to the oppressed. The Good News on this Trinity Sunday provides us the opportunity to reflect, retell and relive faithfully the story of God creating and redeeming the world. Living the Trinity articulate...