Author: Deji Okegbile

Raising Missional Youth: Power for advancing Mission in Intercultural Settings.

Raising Missional Youth: Power for advancing Mission in Intercultural Settings.

Posted by | Nov 2, 2024 | , |

Methodist Youth Fellowship ARCHDIOCESE OF IBADAN 2024 Mission Conference Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024.  Venue: Griffin Memorial Methodist Church, Akeetan Oyo, Theme: Building a Missional Church I thank God for the opportunity extended to me to be part of the 2024 Methodist Youth Fellowship, Archdiocese of Ibadan, 2024 Mission Conference. The central theme of this Conference is “Building a Missional Church.” My session will focus on a sub-theme: “Mission in Intercultural Settings.” In reflection on the purpose of this Conference to encourage our youth in their faith walk with God to be raised as missional youth to advance God’s...

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BOOK REVIEW: Indigenised To Decolonize: Celebrating Nigerian Methodism by Hon. Justice E. O. Osinuga

BOOK REVIEW: Indigenised To Decolonize: Celebrating Nigerian Methodism by Hon. Justice E. O. Osinuga

Posted by | Oct 23, 2024 | |

  Preambular remarks: This is another topical, timely and appropriate book from the stable of   Bishop Deji Okegbile. This review is to give us a bird’s eye view of the salient contents of the book in just a few pages.  INTRODUCTION. Title of book: Indigenised To Decolonize: Celebrating Nigerian Methodism. The title of this precious book is, on the one hand, captivating, alluring and sufficient to be the fulcrum of a doctoral thesis at the graduate level.  On the other hand, it is sufficiently loaded to be the subject matter of a semester of three months in an evangelism course...

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GENERAL GOWON @90: Image of True Military, Nation’s Hero with Apostolic Leadership Character and Mandate.

GENERAL GOWON @90: Image of True Military, Nation’s Hero with Apostolic Leadership Character and Mandate.

Posted by | Oct 20, 2024 | |

General Yakubu Dan-Yumma “Jack” Gowon, a Nigeria former Head of State from 1966 to 1975, born on 19 October 1934 from a minority Ngas (Anga) ethnic group from Lur, Kanke Local Government Area of Plateau State, remains a model of a detribalised Nigerian and peace ambassador. General Gowon has sustained his excellent work for humanity through his NGO, the Yakubu Gowon Foundation. I aptly agreed with Prof Tunji Olaopa, the Federal Civil Service Commission Chairman, in describing General Yakubu Gowon at 90 as the nation’s eternal hero. God has graced General Gowon to be part of Nigeria’s story, engagingly, professionally,...

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WESLEY 100 INTERNATIONAL (WIN): A Renewing Mission Initiative.

WESLEY 100 INTERNATIONAL (WIN): A Renewing Mission Initiative.

Posted by | Oct 16, 2024 | , , , , |

Jesus is coming again. Fellow pilgrims, cheer up, lift the trumpets, and let it ring. To gather in the last harvest by offering Jesus Christ to people globally and locally, the state of the modern Church and the ruin of Christianity calls for a global revival of holiness. To have an impact not just upon people in churches but also upon nations requires divine energy. Sadly, the world is increasingly growing in the Church. In contrast, the Church fulfils its mandate when it changes society and not when a divided society is growing, dividing, and changing it. It is...

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‘MR METHODIST,’ SIR FAMILUSI, MODEL OF A LAY METHODIST MISSIOLOGIST: BEYOND CLERGY-LAITY GAP.

‘MR METHODIST,’ SIR FAMILUSI, MODEL OF A LAY METHODIST MISSIOLOGIST: BEYOND CLERGY-LAITY GAP.

Posted by | Oct 11, 2024 | , |

History is vital to missiology, which is a reflection on the task of mission.[1] History teaches us that what is cultural and what is biblically required often get confused, just as missiology warns us, for example, against confusing a particular model of worship, leadership, music, dress, etc., as inextricable from the gospel. History has taught us that while human nature in the aggregate never changes, individuals indwelt by the Holy Spirit can live differently. Such individuals who lived differently were filled and used with the fuel of truth to burn for God, as was Sir Michael M. Familusi (1923-2024). It is...

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