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Growing up, I vividly remember my grandmother praying for us each time we embarked on our four-hour journey back home to Kiambu from Embu, Kenya. Without fail, she would say, “I cover you with the blood of Jesus for protection.” It was a heartfelt plea for God to grant us journey mercies. And for many believers in the African church, this “pleading”…

In Does God Promise Me Health, Wealth and Happiness?, Femi Adeleye offers a much-needed biblical corrective to one of the most pervasive distortions of the Christian message in Africa today—the prosperity gospel. With pastoral sensitivity and theological clarity, Adeleye addresses the core promises touted by this popular health and wealth movement, measuring them against the true promises of God as revealed…

In the first article of this three-part series, we confronted the glory-seeking tendencies of African Christianity by recovering Martin Luther’s biblical insight: God reveals himself not in human strength or success, but in suffering and the scandal of the cross. Now we turn to the lived expression of that faith. Framed as a question: What does it mean to live a life…

"WE AFFIRM that Jesus’s death on the cross secures for us all the blessings that conform to our salvation here and hereafter. We affirm that the design of the atonement is such that through repentance and faith we are united to Christ and enjoy the blessings of justification, sanctification, and future glorification. We affirm, therefore, that the salvation of our…