Author: Deji Okegbile

Leading like Jesus: Emotional Intelligence, a Ministerial Necessity.

Leading like Jesus: Emotional Intelligence, a Ministerial Necessity.

Posted by | Jul 9, 2025 | |

Leadership development is a ministerial necessity, extending beyond workplace interactions, conflict and stress management, and enhanced job performance. A ministerial necessity to lead like Jesus reflects the biblical vision of Jesus’ humanity. Missional practices for Christian leadership development, discipleship, and spiritual formation programs are best expressed in leading like Jesus. Leading like Jesus beyond emotional influence towards emotional output is not just about career success, role privilege, life satisfaction, and overall life success. Warfield rightly explained that “without an appreciation of his emotional life, Christ will always seem to be at a distance from us” (Warfield, 2022). Leading like...

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ARE YOU ON THE FLIGHT?

ARE YOU ON THE FLIGHT?

Posted by | Jul 8, 2025 | |

When you are in an airport, notice the difference between passengers who hold confirmed tickets and those who are on standby. One reads the newspaper, chats with their friends or sleeps, while the other hangs around the ticket counter, pacing anxiously. What is the difference? Confidence! If you knew that in 15 minutes you must stand before God, what would your reaction be? Would you pace or say to yourself, ‘I cannot wait?’ Paul writes: ‘The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children’ (Rom. 8:16). In other words, the Spirit whispers, ‘Relax, you have trusted...

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The Urgency of the Harvest: Beyond Museum Maintenance to a Missionary Church.

The Urgency of the Harvest: Beyond Museum Maintenance to a Missionary Church.

Posted by | Jul 7, 2025 | |

Contemporary theological education has been oriented primarily towards the pastoral care of congregations, thereby reducing Christ’s ministry to a functionalist definition and practice. Jesus Christ, in the Gospel reading from Luke 10, re-echoes the Church’s mission to the world. Jesus Christ brings to the fore the missional character of the Church’s ministry by sending His followers out with the urgency of the harvest, due to His compassion for those who are lost. The missional insight of global Christianity for Christian ministry is not just about the arts and skills of professional church leadership, or upgrading both the professional performance and...

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The Church beyond Popular Polls: A Call to Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ.

The Church beyond Popular Polls: A Call to Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ.

Posted by | Jul 1, 2025 | , |

For I’m building a people of power  And I’m making a people of praise  That will move through this land by My Spirit  And will glorify My precious name  Chorus Build Your Church, Lord. Make us strong, Lord.  Join our hearts, Lord, through Your Son  Make us one, Lord in Your Body  In the kingdom of Your Son. Build Your Church, Lord. Make us strong, Lord.  Join our hearts, Lord, through Your Son  Make us one, Lord in Your Body  In the kingdom of Your Son  Jesus is not interested in taking a popularity poll but in building up...

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THE WORLD AS MY PARISH!

THE WORLD AS MY PARISH!

Posted by | Jun 30, 2025 | |

“I look upon all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation” – John Wesley. At a point in time, John Wesley realised that ‘the Church of England was stuck. It had somehow lost touch with the Holy Spirit.’ This was the genesis of Wesley’s renewal movement from church to church preaching against sin and dead religion hence, he was kicked out into open fields that resulted...

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