Author: Deji Okegbile

MOTIF OF ‘THE WIDOW AS ALTAR OF GOD’: Overcoming Scribes’ altar of idolatry.

The story of the widows, especially the one with two mites not only fits within missional paradigm for Christian discipleship. The story echoes Jesus’ uniqueness with eyes that penetrated both the widow’s circumstances and heart. (Mk 12:38-44). The widow’s mite story reminds us that God’s kingdom works on entirely different principles than the kingdom of this world. Jesus, in this last event of His public ministry was teaching the people about the hypocrisy of the scribes. The widow in her poverty stands in stark contrast to the scribes in their pride and arrogance. The widow’s gesture was a sign...

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METHODIST THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, SAGAMU @70: TOWARD MISSIONAL THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN NIGERIA.

Theological education is missional in nature. The missional approach is Bible-shaped and very vital for the growth, health, renewal, leadership, and mission of the church. The state of theological education and ministerial formation in Nigeria today calls for concern and attention. The emerging churches and prayer houses made up of first-generation believers operates with totally different sets of worldviews and consumers practices. The problem therefore suggests missional leadership deficit due to lack of deep discipleship under the Lordship of Jesus Christ in their lives, which would transform their worldviews. Lack of formal and biblical training with the increase rate...

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GOD’S LOVE SAVES: JESUS’ RESPONSE TO OPPOSITIONS, BEYOND LOVE IDOLATRY.

Faithful Gospel ministry brings both opposition and blessings. Oppositions to the Gospel even today must not be strange to us as believers especially when we think about what Jesus, our Lord and Saviour, the revelation of God went through. Opposition comes to distract, delude, and deter us from experiencing God’s plan and vision for us as individual believers and as a church. We see today homes and churches shattered on the rocks of delusion and despair, ‘a skyrocketing divorce rate, abuse in the home, disease, crime, abortion, gangs, suicide, incest, child abuse, rape, drive-by shootings, drugs, and the inability of...

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BLACK HISTORY AND COP26 CLIMATE SUMMIT: THE PEOPLE FIRST BEFORE THE PLANET

The history of the Black race is about testimonies of communities and people that are more climate-resilient. It is a sad story and memory that the Black race climate-resilience has turned to climate and environment-regrets. One of the major climatic hazards to the Black race is the devastating and disfiguring impacts of environmental and climate racisms. Climate change as a culture-killer especially to the Black race forces cultures to adapt or die because it shifts and disrupts human, plant and animal habitats. Environmental and climate racisms promotes loss of ‘the cultural important species on which traditional knowledge depends,’ hence...

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CULTURAL LEGACY OF COLONIALISM, BEYOND THE RETURN OF STOLEN AND LOOTED ARTEFACTS: Overcoming Coloniality of Power.

Africa was the wellspring for the birth of Atlantic world and the creation of the modern world. African civilization and history has been recorded before the eve of colonial conquest of the continent. The interruptive and destructive natures of the colonial transatlantic slave trade that steal, kill and destroy African civilization remains a tragic memory till date. The pre-colonial Africa was spiritual, civilised, organised, intelligent, hospitable, and hard working. Pre-colonial Africa was home to thousands of vibrant, dynamic cultures populating all parts of the vast continent. The classic Nile valley civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and others parts was...

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