Author: Deji Okegbile

The Acts of the Apostles that ‘gives us an account of a Church destitute of the Spirit,’[1] begins with a missional promise. Jesus speaks His final words to His men before ascending to heaven. The missional key verse in the book of Acts is “Ye shall receive power” (Acts 1:8). Here, Luke does not relate the baptism in the Spirit to the first experience of personal spiritual salvation. Luke describes the Holy Spirit as senior partner, power that comes upon someone who is already a follower of Jesus Christ, then working within him or her to effectively communicate Christ’s...

The Church’s role as a “sent church” is sacrosanct.[1] Against the managerial and mechanical solutions of Babylon in our post-Christian culture, sending and being sent remains constitutive of Christian mission[2] (Ps 137). Growing 21st century missional church is a reminder for the church to stop repeating its decline and mistake because, ‘the one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn anything from history.’ Resultantly, churches continue to loose our followers to new communities of belief. Today, the church is continuing in a fatal period with a ‘miserable mistake,’ and rather than confessing and repenting from our...