Deji Okegbile

CELEBRATING A CHRISTIAN HOME: APPRECIATING MATRIARCH ARINOLA SANYA: A PROFESSOR OF PROFESSORS AND EXAMPLE OF PHILANTHROPIST’S WIFE.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jul 2, 2022 | Events, Methodism |

In an age when business/career families, homes and marriages are common and challenging, Sir Dr Yemi Sanya and Lady Prof Arinola Sanya provides us a model of a Christian home. A former President of United State of America, Abraham Lincoln rightly declared that ‘the strength of a nation is the home of its people.’ This statement about the importance of home resonates with the secret of the numerous testimonies and tributes said and written about Sir Dr Yemi Sanya’s legacies. Sir Dr Sanya first hung his heart to God, his and children in order to open his hands to...

ARISE AND PRAY FOR METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 28, 2022 | Methodism |

Methodist Conference suggests a means of grace, accountability to God and to one another under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Just as the Conference for the early Methodists was about spiritual formation, encouraging people to serve and follow Jesus faithfully, let us pray that the delegates may be example of faithful disciples of Jesus Christ in our local churches. One thing remains constant with Methodism, we never lack initiatives to advance the Church and efficiency for the gospel. In 2007, the initiative tagged ‘Mapping a Way Forward: Regrouping for Mission ‘challenged each and every Methodist circuit and local...

SIR (DR) ‘YEMI SANYA: AN “UNFORGETTABLE KNIGHT,” GRASSROOTS METHODIST CHRISTIAN SOLDIER.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 27, 2022 | Events |

This week, we celebrate and commend Sir (Dr) Adeyemi Olufunmilayo Sanya to God’s arm of mercy, the joy of everlasting peace, and into the glorious company of the saints in light through Jesus Christ our Lord. Writing this tribute to my dear father and mentor is one of the most difficult task ever in recent time. To write and refer to Sir (Dr) Sanya, a Knight of John Wesley (KJW), in the past is so difficult for me and many others. Sir (Dr) Sanya in no doubt was one of the very silent Nigeria foremost entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and grassroots...

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (3).

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 25, 2022 | Methodism, Missions and Evangelism, Nations |

Indigenised to decolonise, the Nigerian Methodism at 180 is a call to personal and corporate renewal which is Bible-based and prayer-focused. Indigenised to decolonise, the Nigerian Methodism at 180 and 60 years of autonomy is about celebrating the heritage of Scriptural holiness, the Authority of Scripture, centrality of the Cross, field preaching and other accompanying missional expressions of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for everyone. Colonialism continue to marginalise and exclude African perspectives and voices thereby creating and promoting the problem of misrepresentation, misinterpretation, and abuse of the continent and others. Indigenised to decolonise, the Nigerian Methodism at 180...

METHODISM, Nigeria Premier Church @180 and Autonomy @60: Indigenised to Decolonise (2).

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jun 20, 2022 | Methodism, Missions and Evangelism, Nations |

The Acts of the Apostles is a missional progress of the gospel of Jesus Christ from Jerusalem to Rome. The missional milestones from Samaria, Antioch, Cyprus, across Anatolia and Greece spread westward through the Ethiopian eunuch.[1] African churches, using the words of Professor Andrew Walls, ‘brings into focus the period when Western Europe was converted to Christianity.’ According to Walls, ‘we have a tendency to forget about this period, to jump from Augustine to Luther and forget about Bede and Gregory of Tours. During this period Christian missionary had to explain Christianity to the inhabitants of Europe in light...