Author: Deji Okegbile

Rev. Dr. Steve Emery-Wright: A Leading Voice for Thinking Biblically.

Rev. Dr. Steve Emery-Wright: A Leading Voice for Thinking Biblically.

Posted by | Aug 1, 2022 | , |

To God be the glory. Rev Dr Steve Emery-Wright is retiring from the British Methodist ministry after 41 years of fruitful service. The image I have about Rev Dr Steve Emery-Wright as a research student at Cliff College remains one of an enthusiastic, loving, discipline, mountaineer, mentor, spirit-filled lecturer, a Methodist minister, husband and a father who is always ready to solve students’ problem. For Steve, being church or being a Christian leader is to think, lead, and teach biblically. Times do not change Bible, Bible changes and transforms times and people into true image of God. In an...

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METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (7).

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (7).

Posted by | Jul 30, 2022 | , , |

Church mission history reminds us that Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in 312 AD ‘wed the church with the state and set the framework for later colonialism.’ The acts of Constantine and their effects on Christianity reminds us that politicians are not religious representatives. Colonialism understood as western or colonial political expansion,[1] has to a certain degree been eradicated through political independences granted to come nations under colonial political control. Some African countries have seen the end of their status as colonies only in recent years – Zimbabwe in 1980, Namibia in 1990. Sadly, colonialism as expressed in economic, social, and...

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SIR SOFUNKE: Model of an Itinerant Methodist Lay Preacher.

SIR SOFUNKE: Model of an Itinerant Methodist Lay Preacher.

Posted by | Jul 26, 2022 | |

If the Christian faith and the hope of the resurrection were real, and if the songs we Methodists knew so well were more than a mere comfort blanket (especially the one by John Ellerton with the words – MHB 975: ‘When the day of toil is done’), then death was also about vindication. Experiencing death in the hope of the resurrection made perfect sense to Sir Olusegun Ayodeji Sofunke, a Knight of John Wesley (KJW), vindicating his life, his ministry, and anticipating his ultimate hope in Jesus Christ. Indeed, his death was dead on arrival, hence his transition to...

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PASTOR FAITH-AMINU, A FAITHFUL MISSIONARY SAINT TO LAGOS STATE CHRISTIAN CIVIL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP.

PASTOR FAITH-AMINU, A FAITHFUL MISSIONARY SAINT TO LAGOS STATE CHRISTIAN CIVIL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP.

Posted by | Jul 24, 2022 | |

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful – 1 Cor 4:2 Pastor Faith-Aminu Adebayo, the news of your transition came to me late last night with a shock. We met last time I was in Nigeria at Chapel of Christ the Light (Interdenominational), Alausa, Lagos. We embraced and prayed together after a long time of fellowship. Pastor Faith was one of the volunteer and dedicated missionaries that God sent to me when I resumed my ministry work at the Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa, Ikeja, twenty two years ago. With Pastor Malaolu, the...

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METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (6).

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (6).

Posted by | Jul 23, 2022 | |

Nigerian Methodism at 180, indigenised to decolonise hold forth the indigenous method as the largest hope to renew and grow the churches and reach the unreached across the world.[1] Indigenised to decolonise warns us about missional deviations, how we have lost our ways, sense of direction, and the essence of missions and leadership. The chief forces of the church are busy at useful tasks other than harvesting. Indigenised to decolonise corrects the deviations that in some vague way other religions confer salvation or love and hence their followers do not need Jesus as the Saviour, and the will to...

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