Deji Okegbile

Heart-shaped Hospitality: Jesus’ Invitation to Martha’s Church and World.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jul 21, 2022 | Missions and Evangelism |

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea. And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but shall not find it – Amos 8:11-12. The story of Mary and Martha is filled with missional and timeless lessons. The challenge with us as leaders pulled in different directions by what seem to be common threads of...

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (5).

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jul 16, 2022 | Methodism |

Indigenised to decolonise is about the spread of Methodism through personal encounter with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Indigenised to decolonise beyond critical biblical scholarship is a renewing biblical scholarship with an eye to human transformation. Beyond ‘the current situation in which the theologies produced in the West dictate the goals, tasks, and methods of Christian studies in the non-Western world,’ indigenised to decolonise is ‘to emphasize the necessity for local Christians to initiate a reorientation of the way we conduct theological studies in a specific locality.’[1] Indigenised to decolonise not only challenges mere ‘cognitive understanding of the Christian...

Omooba (Princess) Mary Mojisola Edebiri: A Portrait of a Godly Wife and Mother.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jul 14, 2022 | Events |

After almost a year, I just got to know about the transition of a beloved mother, Omooba (Princess) Mary Mojisola Olubunmilola Edebiri nee Awolesi today. Thanks to social media for enabling one of Mum Edebiri’s daughter, Edugie, to connect with me after 18 years. In 1993, God connected me with Mum Edebiri as members of Methodist Evangelical Movement (MEM), Wesley Cathedral, Olowogbowo, Lagos. Wesley Cathedral, Olowogbowo remains one of my early centres of ministerial formation under Most Rev Luke Odubanjo and Most Rev Muyiwa Odejayi. At Wesley Cathedral God blessed me with numerous families till date. Mum Edebiri was...

Missional Map to Eternal Life: Jesus Christ, the Good Samaritan.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jul 12, 2022 | Missions and Evangelism |

True eternal life begins with a personal relationship and journey with Jesus Christ (Rom 6:23). A man or a woman created in God’s image for abundant life has a choice to make between the wages of sin, eternal death, and the gift of God, eternal life (Gen 2-3). The Gospel of John gives us a definition of Christ’s gift of eternal life: “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (Jn 17:3). Sin is a barrier to eternal life hence, the need to accept Jesus’ forgiveness...

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (4).

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jul 9, 2022 | Events, General and Ecumenism, Methodism, Missions and Evangelism |

Indigenised to decolonise calls the people called Methodist to renewal and repentance as God’s instruments as we were in Wesley’s day. Failure to learn from John Wesley’s experience and his fear is to decline in his Movement and to miss missional essentials about his identity, leadership, spread, history, and theology. Through Wesley’s experience, we know that the true mission field is not abroad preaching to the “heathen.” In 1736, John and Charles, accompanied General Oglethorpe from England to Georgia to oversee the local church and fulfil their dream of witnessing their faith with Native Americans. The hope of reaching...