Author: Deji Okegbile

Overseas ‘Reverse’ Missions: Post-Christian Evangelism Beyond Methodist Decline.

Overseas ‘Reverse’ Missions: Post-Christian Evangelism Beyond Methodist Decline.

Posted by | Jan 16, 2023 | , |

Look unto Him, ye nations, own Your God, ye fallen race Look and be saved by faith alone, Be justified by grace – Charles Wesley The reverse mission is understood within the context of reverse migration equipped and sent to ‘serve the present age.’ These services are with a consecration that put all the practical powers of life and its cherished possessions at Christ’s disposal. Reverse mission as a consecration to a mission, to the world-mission of the Redeemer Himself is shaped by order of things in the economy of grace – saintship and service, inward dedication, and outward activity;...

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Hayford, A Missional Leadership Model of Renewing a Declining Church in a Post-Christian Nation.

Hayford, A Missional Leadership Model of Renewing a Declining Church in a Post-Christian Nation.

Posted by | Jan 13, 2023 | , |

The vision of a missional leadership model of renewing a declining church in a post-Christian nation is not to mistake means for ends. The vision is the missional renewal for the leadership and the church as the community of the Holy Spirit rather than a restoration of churches and Christian institutions to their former states of strength. Jack Hayford will not only be remembered as the Foursquare Church leader ‘who taught evangelicals that God is enthroned in the praises of his people.’ Hayford’s identification with evangelicalism or ecumenism is found more in its Pietist and Wesleyan roots, where the...

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Examine Me, O Lord: Prayer for Personal Renewal.

Examine Me, O Lord: Prayer for Personal Renewal.

Posted by | Jan 8, 2023 | |

God is the Ultimate Examiner. Psalm 139 takes an unexpected turn, concluding with a prayer for the Lord to examine David’s heart: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you and leads me along the path of everlasting life.” The beginning of the New Year offers us an opportunity to ask God to examine and search us for a fruitful year. The human part always rationalises and resists dealing with what is wrong in the heart, but the truth is that we need to...

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DEATH FOUND POPE BENEDICT ALIVE: Era of Unprecedented Papacy.

DEATH FOUND POPE BENEDICT ALIVE: Era of Unprecedented Papacy.

Posted by | Dec 31, 2022 | |

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the former German Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger, was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s pre-eminent theologians with a long and illustrious career. Born April 16, 1927, in Marktl Am Inn, in Bavaria, Benedict, the son of a rural policeman, ‘will forever be known as the first pope in 600 years to resign.’ At age 14, against his will, he was enlisted in the Nazi youth movement but ‘deserted the German army in April 1945.’ As a result, he was imprisoned in 1945 in an American POW camp in Neu-Ulm. Benedict was ordained on June 26,...

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THE SHEPHERDS WITH ‘WARMED HEARTS,’ AND THE MANGER, A MISSIONAL METAPHOR

THE SHEPHERDS WITH ‘WARMED HEARTS,’ AND THE MANGER, A MISSIONAL METAPHOR

Posted by | Dec 26, 2022 | |

Luke is the only writer in the Bible to use the word manger in the New Testament. He tells us that when Jesus was born, Mary laid Him in something called a Manger, the Latin word munducare, which means “to eat” (Lk 2:7). Luke, in the most famous Christmas paragraphs in the Bible, points our attention to the Manger three times: “She gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them in the inn” (Lk 2:7); “This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying...

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