Nigeria Ministry Leader: Gospel Creates Better Leaders

Obi Onwuzurumba of Nigeria, our Affinity Sphere Director for English-speaking Africa, had a passion for reaching government leaders with the Gospel long before he met Capitol Ministries.

Obi, a former chemistry tutor turned clergyman, and his wife, Martha, a former pharmacist, have ministered together for many years to take the Word of God to their nation’s leaders. The couple served as Special Assistants to Nigeria’s immediate past president from 2007 to 2015, and Obi also served as the President’s chaplain in the state house where many Christian Public Servants worshiped.

Currently, Obi and Martha are individually ministering to former and current Legislators and politicians and holding Bible studies when possible. The couple also ministers to Civil Servant fellowship groups, which are numerous. Often, Obi adapts and uses Ralph’s Bible studies, which he describes as “rich and comprehensive.”

“We have chosen to be part of Capitol Ministries having seen the need to more effectively reach our politicians and top civil servants with the life transforming Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ through Bible studies,” Obi said. “We believe that they will be better leaders if they respond positively and our country will be better for it.

“Thank you for the opportunity to share our dreams and aspirations in our service for our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Is Man Basically Good?

Many government leaders believe that through the use of reason, those who do evil can be made to change their minds and voluntarily stop murdering innocent people.

But that’s not what the Bible says.

Scripture makes it clear that God ordained the Institution of Government primarily to restrain man’s sinful nature.

In this week’s Bible study, The National Consequences Of Rejecting The Doctrine of Sin that he will teach to U.S. Congressmen on the Hill in Washington, D.C., Ralph Drollinger examines what the Bible says about the nature of man.

Learn with the leaders of our nation this week that how a person views and understands the sinful nature of man affects his worldview, his actions, the policies he enacts and the very way he lives his life.

Click to read The National Consequences of Rejecting The Doctrine of Sin

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Representative Daniel Webster

Florida

A Christian Congressman can’t separate his faith from the decisions he makes in office. Faith should be an integral part of a Christian’s life. Whether your job is running a business, or whether your job is being a laborer, or whether your job is being in the United States Congress, it really doesn’t matter; if your faith is integrated into your life, it is going to affect how you think, what you do, and how you act.“For me, my faith is the center of my life. The principles of my faith are found in the Bible. I read the Bible all the way through every year; I read Psalms and Proverbs through every month. And every day I look for a verse that I write down on a piece of paper and put in my pocket, knowing I will come across the reason it is there and, sure enough, that is how it works out. The biblical principles I live by, affect everything I do every day including making votes, meeting with constituents, or trying to serve the community in other ways. Faith can’t be pulled apart from other areas of life. You can’t separate faith and say, ‘I go to church on Sunday thatis the faith part of my life, and the rest of the week is the secular part of my life.’ You can’t live like that and have real faith. As a Christian, my faith affects everything I do.

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Dr. Dan DeShong

As CapMin’s Director of Local Government Ministries, I am seeking qualified candidates to establish weekly Bible studies to city and county elected and appointed public servants across the United States. I also led the first LGM Bible study to city and county commissioners in the greater Sacramento, CA area. I taught the curriculum, Oaks in Office: Biblical Essays for Political Leaders, which contains the most pertinent Bible studies Ralph Drollinger, President and Founder of Capitol Ministries, has authored to meet the spiritual, personal, and professional needs of Christian legislators over his more than 25 year ministry. Our Sacramento group is still meeting to study the Bible and we are studying Oaks in Office a second time.

The experience was exhilarating to say the least! None of us had any idea that the Bible had so much to say about immigration, parenting, racism, deficit spending, and other contemporary issues. One elected official had planned to leave politics and now he says, “No wonder God has me in this position!“

As Christians, we sort of take biblical precepts and doctrines for granted, but when the issues are broken out in specific chapters like Ralph has done in Oaks in Office, they become very clear and very real.

This first group was pretty excited about this study and will be sharing their story with city and county commissioners around the country. Who knows where God will take this?

Ministries to local government public servants have been planted in California, Texas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Oregon, Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, and in dozens of provinces and territories in European nations.

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