Author: Deji Okegbile

Beyond a wide variety of prophets and activists from all the world’s religions who have deepened and enriched their times, the urgent need and objective of the church today is to get back to the warrant of faith and beatitude of leadership (Jude 3, Matt 5). When faith degenerate to subjectivism and moral aberration, we need spiritual leadership as a rudder to steer the church boat as pillar and foundation of truth. Leadership matters. Just as ‘poor leadership cripples businesses, ruins economies, destroys families … bring the demise of nations;’ the church also declines.  The global list of crises keeps growing,...

Rob Frost in his book ‘Which Way for the Church?,’ reflects on the church’s options of ‘slow death by irrelevance, or the pursuit of a vision that might just turn back the destructive forces in society.’ The urgent call is for a biblical ‘church that can still be what her Master intended,’[1] especially when ‘the vast majority of modern Christians work with cultural misconceptions about Christ.’ Stephen Travis book, ‘The Church Under Fire,’ provides a helpful reflection on ‘the verdict of the risen Christ on the life of the first-century churches, we see the aspects of our church life...