Author: Deji Okegbile

“The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted.”  – Oscar A Romero A simpler understanding of worship is in the very root of the English word, which is ‘worth-ship,’ the state of gladly recognising and responding to the supreme worth of God in Jesus Christ. The book...

  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age (Matt 28:19-20) A major danger of a declining church is the ability to thwart Christ’s purpose, and to make it both impossible and undesirable that God should add to us souls for whom He has died. It is a solemn thing to feel that we may clog Christ’s chariot-wheels, that...

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Then those who gladly[g]received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple,...