Author: Deji Okegbile

Very Rev Prof Konyin Ajayi (SAN): Learned Silk @ 60

Very Rev Prof Konyin Ajayi (SAN): Learned Silk @ 60

Posted by | May 25, 2019 | , , |

“If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants” – Sir Isaac Newton. Very Rev Professor Konyinsola Ajayi SAN, the Managing Partner of Olaniwun Ajayi Legal Practitioner (OALP) born on Monday 25th May, 1959 is the third child of a former Commissioner for Health in the defunct western region of Nigeria, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi of Isara Remo. Professor Ajayi, a transaction lawyer described by peers as “a lawyer’s of lawyer,” who took Silk in 2000 is the minister in charge, Emmanuel Chapel Methodist Church, Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos. Professor Ajayi is a mentor and...

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METHODISM FOR THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: ‘Warning to Methodists: … You cannot alter it except to mar it’

METHODISM FOR THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: ‘Warning to Methodists: … You cannot alter it except to mar it’

Posted by | May 24, 2019 | , , , , |

The British Academy announced at the eve of this year’s Wesley’s Day celebration that “Theology and Religious Studies risk disappearing from our universities.” The new report, the first comprehensive analysis of Theology and Religious Studies provision in the United Kingdom shows a steep decline in student numbers hence, the closure or reduction in size of several university theology departments. Religious Studies and Theological education are not only necessary component of a church planting strategy, they are renewing and equipping medium for healing of homes and marriages, universal church and national renewal, revival, and development. Wesley’s Day urges the necessity...

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WESLEY’S DAY, ONLY IN NAME? DECLINE IN METHODIST BELIEFS, PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES.

WESLEY’S DAY, ONLY IN NAME? DECLINE IN METHODIST BELIEFS, PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES.

Posted by | May 22, 2019 | , , , |

I fear, wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore, I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion to continue long – John Wesley With the present rate of our general decline especially in conversion of souls, it is possible to say that Methodism salvation experience – Wesley’s Day exists in name only. Methodism as the religion of the Bible which is synonymous with scriptural Christianity was the outcome of the 18th century. The early Methodists practices stimulated and fostered the...

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NATIONAL MARRIAGE WEEK: Big Lie in the Garden of Eden, the same Big Lie Today – Call for Intercessory Prayer

NATIONAL MARRIAGE WEEK: Big Lie in the Garden of Eden, the same Big Lie Today – Call for Intercessory Prayer

Posted by | May 16, 2019 | , , |

For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion (Is 9:16). John Senior in his book, The Death of Christian Culture challenged the rejection of ‘the Christian idea of an orderly, intelligible universe created by God.’ One of the spiritual ideas of an orderly gift of God is marriage which is under serious attack today. God intended that well-ordered families would transmit truth and holiness from one generation to another through the means of marriage (Deut 6:6-7). The good news is that, God’s decree concerning marriage that...

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BEYOND THE PHYSICALITY OF KNIGHTHOOD: WORTHY METHODIST KNIGHTHOOD @ 25

BEYOND THE PHYSICALITY OF KNIGHTHOOD: WORTHY METHODIST KNIGHTHOOD @ 25

Posted by | May 14, 2019 | , , |

Despite our challenges, Nigeria as a nation and Methodist Church Nigeria as the first international denomination in Nigeria continue to develop ‘beyond the imagination of the Missionaries who worked there up to the time of independence and left.’ The Methodist leadership development especially after the 1962 autonomy from the British Methodist presidential system to 1976 indigenous corporate Episcopacy was not without its numerous challenges especially the Methodist crisis. From Thursday 24th May, 1990, the date of the execution of the new Methodist Church Nigeria 1990 Constitution, according to Sir Michael Familusi in his book, Methodism in Nigeria, the action...

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