Deji Okegbile

2023 ASBURY AND 1930 OKE-OOYE, ILESA REVIVALS: POWER BEYOND THEOLOGICALLY DEAD INFLUENCE.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Feb 21, 2023 | Missions and Evangelism |

Revival raises the esteem of Jesus Christ. In Revival, God touches a community of faith just as God touches the heart of a single individual in personal renewal for broader societal awakening impacts. God brings revival among many Christians at the same time or region and in individual Christians’ lives as people get saved and renewed individually. Revival, as it was in the day of old through the power of the Holy Spirit, is breaking out while the church today is in schism, disobeying and debating rather than obeying God’s Word. 2023 Asbury revival remains God’s touch upon a...

SALTLESS CHURCH UNDER THE BONDAGE OF THE WORLD: Lot’s example.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Feb 10, 2023 | Missions and Evangelism |

The missional purpose of Matthew’s word pictures in our Gospel reading is to encourage believers to change their world (Matt. 5). When the church is not changing the world through the power of the Holy Spirit, the world is changing the church. There is no neutral ground. When the church fails to contend for the faith from the rainfall of other ideas and ideologies, there will be a mixture, a dilution, and a redefinition of the Truth shaped by many other ideologies. You cannot be a true church without clear-cut loyalty to Jesus and what the Word of God...

REVIVAL BEGINS AT HOME: OVERCOMING WARS AGAINST THE CHURCH.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Feb 2, 2023 | General and Ecumenism |

In times like this, with the decline and wars against the Church, the words of a hymn by Baylus B McKinney offers hope and renewal. The hymn challenges and reminds Christians what we should strive and contend for. The hymn calls us to make the Bible a centerpiece of our home, daily life, and teachings. The lyrics remind us that true revival begins at home, “Home where the Lord is an honored guest.” Jesus’ original purpose of coming on earth to build His Church was with a prayer that the gates of hell should not prevail against her. The...

A PASTOR OF BISHOPS AND ECUMENIST, VERY REV. PROFESSOR OYALANA: 10 YEARS AFTER.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jan 25, 2023 | General and Ecumenism, Methodism |

Ten years after the passage of our distinguished professor Very Rev Professor Andrew Sunday Oyalana, one of this era’s leading Christian ecumenists, we continue to experience a deep void, which will remain in our hearts until our eschatological reunion. Very Rev Prof Oyalana’s legacy is essential to orient aspiring ecumenists. Very Rev Prof Oyalana was an ‘interdisciplinary and learned ecumenist, researcher, and practitioner. The ecumenist demonstrated broad and profound knowledge of philosophy, history, and theology across different ecclesiastical traditions and ethnicities in his multiple teaching appointments as a distinguished professor of ecumenical and historical theology.’ Very Rev Prof Oyalana’s...

Standing on the Shoulder of BISHOP OJUMU, An Evangelical Bishop and Giant: 15 YEARS AFTER:

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Jan 24, 2023 | Methodism |

“We stand on the shoulders of giants” – Bishop Akinleye Kehinde Ojumu was one of my giants. Beyond being a giant of great stature, Bishop Ojumu was a spiritual giant, almost of John Wesley’s height in life, 5foot 1 inch. The late Bishop Ojumu tremendously influenced many people’s lives – clergy and laity. I first met him in 1994 at Methodist Church Nigeria headquarters, Wesley House, Lagos, when he took over from prelate emeritus, His Eminence Sunday Ola Makinde as a Chaplain to prelate emeritus, His Eminence Sunday Mbang. I learned of him more upon reading his first contribution...