Author: Deji Okegbile

“ONLY JUSTICE”: Christian Unity in Age of Divisions and Despair.

In an age and time when the laws of rulers has overtaken the rule of law, the theme for the 2019 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 18th – 25th January, “Only Justice,” is very timely. The Christians of Indonesia with 10% of the entire nation’s 260 million population against the 86% Muslim ‘found that the words of Deuteronomy, ‘Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue…’ spoke powerfully to their situation (Deut 16:18-20). The situation in Indonesia, the largest country in South East Asia, made up of more than 17,000 islands, I,340 different ethnic groups and over 740 local...

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Watch Out: My New Book: Missional Leadership for Repositioning Nigerian Methodism

Deji Okegbile has been my student, colleague and friend in the ministry for more than a decade. He has demonstrated himself to be a man of exceptional spiritual depth, academic ability, and missionary insight. I believe his work has an important prophetic and cutting edge that cannot be found elsewhere. And so, I recommend his work for publication as a unique contribution to the missiological literature, but also for the future of the Methodist movement in Nigeria. This book represent the fruit of much careful research. The work, on Missional Leadership began as a dissertation for the MA degree...

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When the “Wine Ran Out:” Symbolic beyond Cana and Time.

“Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18) The first miracle of Jesus Christ at a wedding in a town called, Cana of Galilee speaks beyond the surface event of a social disaster, running out of wine at a party or breach of hospitality to guest. Jesus’ miracles are meant to reveal to us the glory of God, and to point us to who Jesus truly is. The first miracle of Jesus informs us that human source of joy, power, strength are limited because ‘the wine can run out.’ Jesus’...

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‘MOTHER WESLEY’ @ 350: The Faith, Marriage, and Parenting Legacy that changed the World

The part played by Mary in the Gospel reading for today on John’s account of the Wedding of Cana helps us to reflect upon the esteem in which we should hold mothers today. The 350 anniversary of the birth of ‘Mother Wesley’ – Susanna Wesley is very prophetic and timely in an age when ‘Christian families are struggling in a culture hostile to Christian values, and increasingly find themselves searching for answers and strategies to be more effective.’ The marriage and parenting legacy of Susanna Wesley that changed the world provides ‘empowering insight for: surviving the culture wars as...

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BAPTISM: MOVEMENT TOWARDS THE NEW WORLD

Now it happened, when all the people were baptised, Jesus also had been baptised, and was praying. The sky was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased – Luke 3:21-22 The chaos, turmoils and divisions emanating from the human mechanism and democratic system of seeking a better world or in making great nations provides good missional and witnessing opportunities to pray and reflect on ‘something decisive about Christianity.’ In following after Jesus’...

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