Author: Deji Okegbile

Celebrating Eddie Fox, the Evangelistic Face of World Methodist Council @140 and World Methodist Evangelism @50.

We must take seriously the Great Commission, the spreading of the Gospel, and we must take seriously the Wesley claim, ‘the world is my parish – Eddie Fox Methodism on Wednesday 28th July, 2021 lost one of its most missional encouragers and enablers of evangelism and church growth across the world, Rev Eddie Fox. Twenty eight years ago, at a time I was contemplating on my full-time calling into the ministry, Fox was a major evangelistic face of global Methodism I perceived through his traditional view of Scripture and Christian ethics, vibrant, alive, Spirit-filled, and missionally contagious. To the...

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When the Gospel becomes offensive: Jesus’ Exclusive Claims.

 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” – I Cor 1:18 The Gospel according to Jesus’ claims is exclusive.  This is what our world hates. The Gospel, the greatest love story of salvation ever told is beautiful and benefiting (Jn 3:16). However, the beauty and benefit of the Gospel is not without its offence. The reflection is that, ‘the primary reason the gospel is offensive is because our hearts and minds are centred on ourselves.’ The Gospel means confessing we are...

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THE AIYEDUN PLANT, SIR AGBATO LIVES ON: BLESSINGS OF A VIRTUOUS WIFE, AYODEJI OLUWAFUNMILAYO AGBATO

Sir Dr Olatunde Aiyedun lives on as we celebrate his first Posthumous birthday. The commissioning and dedication of THE AIYEDUN PLANT, a modern livestock feed-mill of a foremost operator in the Nigerian Livestock Industry, Animal Care Services Konsult, Ogere, Ogun State, was done on Tuesday 4th August, 2021 to mark the 71st and first posthumous birthday of the company’s founding father Sir Dr Olatunde Aiyedun Agbato.  The commissioning and dedication was done by the representative of the Governor of Ogun State, His Excellency Prince Dapo Abiodun, Mrs Kikelomo Longe, Commissioner for Industry, Trade and Investment, in honour of Sir...

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Jesus, the Bread of Life: Exclusive Claim and Solution to World’s Famine.

Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the son of man will give you.” (Jn 6:26, 27) In our Gospel reading Jesus emphasized his exclusive claim and solution to world’s famine (Jn 6). The background to Jesus’ claim is the feeding of the 5000. At the end of this feeding, the crowd wanted to take Jesus by force and made Him...

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METHODISM, Most Sustained Revival in History: A Future more than a “Dead Sect” depends on Doctrine, Spirit and Discipline.

The life and thought of a church is always larger and deeper than its official documents – H. B. Workman In the Old Testament, periods of spiritual decline in the days of the judges and kings were always followed by seasons of quickening (Ezra 7:10). Revival in the New Testament periods is all about Jesus (Is 61:1-3). After days of faithful and continuous prayer, the church was born in revival fire at Pentecost (Acts 1:14, 2:1-4). Revival continues to be through the Holy Spirit in a period of decline. In church and revival history, there have been different revival...

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