Deji Okegbile

‘WHAT IS TRUTH?’- (Pilate Syndrome): Defining Question of our culture.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Oct 29, 2016 | Ministry and Prayer |

Truth has been on trial for the past 2000 years especially with reference to the Passion narrative. The Roman governor Pontius Pilate’s famous cynical reply ‘What is truth,’ to Jesus’ assertion that ‘everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice,’ is a helpful and a defining question for our secular culture. (John 18:38). It is apparent that while recognising the truth, Pilate chose to reject it. Where are the Pilates of our time? Today, many people sound a lot like Pilate, a kind of Pilate syndrome and feeling, free of all guilt, turning from truth and perpetuating...

URGENCY OF EVANGELISM: ‘Christ or chaos.’

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Oct 26, 2016 | Missions and Evangelism |

‘Your Majesty, Some men’s ambition is art. Some men’s ambition is fame. Some men’s ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men’ – William Booth. In Micah’s day, his four prescriptions for Israel and for the world’s tapestry of deception from top to bottom provides a reflection on urgency of evangelism in response to the chaos in the world (Micah 7, Jn 16:33). According to Micah, the world needs a Good Shepherd in contrast to the prophets who only said what people wanted to hear; the world needs a new exodus; the world needs a clear sign...

JESUS IS LORD: A Call to Discipleship

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Oct 19, 2016 | Missions and Evangelism |

‘That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ (Kurios) and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved’ (Rom 10:9-10). Christian scholars agreed that the four biographies of Jesus Christ were written within the lifetime of people who saw, heard and followed Jesus. Beyond the inconsistent agenda of Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars for classical Christianity led by Robert Funk and their quest to demote...

NIGERIA IN PROPHECY

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Oct 12, 2016 | Nations |

I am very sad over the state of my beloved nation Nigeria, especially when l look at the present degeneration and decay. An 80 years old Nigerian woman just won an American citizenship, and all her children and grand children organised a big party with a musical band on ground to celebrate the new American citizen. What a celebration indeed! I also listened to the experience of a young graduate lady who did her National Youth Service in one of government agencies. According to her, the bedrock of corruption is the civil service where you see five drivers attached...

WANTED: SPIRITUAL LEADERS

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Oct 11, 2016 | Ministry and Prayer |

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,...