Browsing by Author "Abiodun ADEBAYO"

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    Fivefold Ministry and its Application for Growth in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Mount Zion Cathedral, Province 1, Ibadan, Oyo State
    (Lead City University, 2023-12) Abiodun ADEBAYO
    This study examined fivefold ministry and its application for growth in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Mount Zion Cathedral, Ibadan, Oyo State. The five-fold model functions on the basis that leaders with the ministry areas where they have a proven anointing to grow and edify the Church. The research design adopted for this study was descriptive survey design method. The research design is therefore appropriate as it allow the researcher to evaluate the application of Fivefold ministry to church growth in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. The population of this research is 1050 (One Thousand and Fifty church members of which fifty were ordained Pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Province 1, Mount Zion Cathedral Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Sample size for the population was 200 members and pastors of Mount Zion Cathedral Province 1. The study adopted a purposive stratified random sampling method to select a specified number of despondence from different pastors and church members. This is a sampling technique that allowed the division of the target population into a smaller group organized and then draw a sample from each group separately. The questionnaire was divided into sections; A considered the demography of the respondents of the fivefold ministry in Redeemed Christian Mount Zion Cathedral, while section B contained sub-question for the four research questions. The researcher also ensured the data privacy of the respondents and analysis of the data in such a way that the identity and confidentiality of respondents are protected. The impact was apparent in the members' spiritual, material, and financial well-being as well as in ministerial life as a whole. For efficient church administration and the accomplishment of church goals or mission/vision statements, churches should make sure that five-fold offices are available. Keywords: Fivefold Ministry, Church Growth, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Mount Zion Cathedral. Word Count: 292
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    The Church and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Nigeria: An Engagement of Faith and Technology
    (The International Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities (INJOCORH), 2023) Ayodele Adeyinka ATOWOJU, Ph. D; Abiodun ADEBAYO; Emmanuel O. OLAGUNDOYE; Kehinde AYANLEKE
    The relationship between the church and science is a widely debated issue over the years. One of the major teachings of the church is that faith and science are not contradictory to each other and that science came out of theological cosmology and even works well together, in spite of the conflict model of science and religion. The last four years 2019 – 2023 have been particularly significant in revealing the close relationship between Religion and Science. The entire human race experienced the global covid 19 pandemic and national or international lockdown that resulted from it, with the antecedent shift to digital ways of living, working and worship. Much scholastic works have been done on the indebt relationship between Christianity and Science, the trajectory of which involves the beauty and the ugly. However, the engagement and interface between Christian faith and science in Nigeria requires a closer attention, understanding and engagement, particularly now that the world has advanced into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The paper adopted the hermeneutic and historical methods premised on Draper and White’s “conflict thesis” as theoretical framework which is the series of myths the duo spread about science and religion as irreconcilable enemies. This paper reveals that science and faith are intertwine complex social and cultural endeavours with fundamentally separate forms of knowledge on different aspects of life, therefore it encourages the Church to leverage on the opportunities provided by the current Industrial Revolution and improve on the interconnectivity in addressing the contemporary social challenges rather than being antagonistic as it were in the case of Galileo an Italian Christian and scientist found guilty of heresy and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1633 by the Roman Catholic Inquisition after confirming the veracity of heliocentric theory of Corpernicus and reporting the telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn. Keywords: Church, Faith, Science, Technology, Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), Nigeria